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An evidence-based roadmap to integrate planetary health education into the medical curriculum
- Utrecht University
- University of Amsterdam
The urgency for action on climate change is regarded as the defining issue of our time. Planetary health education prepares future healthcare professionals to promote the health of the planet ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Perceptions and concerns about sustainable healthcare of nursing students trained in sustainability and health: A cohort study
- University of Jaén
Aim: To describe nursing students' perceptions of sustainable health education in the nursing curriculum and their concerns about sustainable healthcare and the impact of climate change on nursing. Background: Sustainable ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST+) Lives Here for Urban Health
- University of Cincinnati (OH)
The University of Cincinnati’s Office of the President, Office of the Provost, and Office of Research committed $12 million to grow inclusive excellence by leveraging diverse perspectives to advance ...
- Posted May 31, 2023
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Nursing students' perception of climate change and sustainability actions – A mismatched discourse: A qualitative, descriptive exploratory study
- Dalarna University
Climate change is described as the biggest global challenge for human health in the upcoming decade. Nurses play a central role in mitigating the effect of climate change on the ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Sustainably Revisioning the Future: Insights to Build Upon from the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Texas A&M University-Commerce (TX)
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (WI)
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a unique global opportunity to reset longstanding practices. The societal, economic, and environmental challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic have reached every facet of life ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Connecting University Sustainability Efforts to Your Health System
- Duke University (NC)
- Emory University (GA)
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
Sustainability is defined as the nexus between society, the environment and the economy. Hundreds of universities are making significant progress toward incorporating sustainability across their campus operations, educational efforts and ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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“I teach it because it is the biggest threat to health”: Integrating sustainable healthcare into health professions education
- Monash University (VIC)
Background Steering planetary and human health towards a more sustainable future demands educated and prepared health professionals.
Aim This research aimed: to explore health professions educators’ sustainable healthcare education (SHE ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Preparing medical graduates for the health effects of climate change: an Australasian collaboration
- The University of Newcastle (NSW)
- Bond University (Queensland)
- Royal Australian College of Physicians
- The University of Notre Dame Australia (WA)
Building a medical workforce that understands the impact of climate change on health and health services and will create change.
The Lancet has described action to address climate change as ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Exploring emerging learning needs: a UK-wide consultation on environmental sustainability learning objectives for medical education
- University of Bristol
- University College London (London)
- University of Hull
- Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (Oxford)
Objectives: This study aimed to engage wide-ranging stakeholders and develop consensus learning objectives for undergraduate and postgraduate medical education.
Methods: A UK-wide consultation garnered opinions of healthcare students, healthcare educators ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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It’s Time for Medical Schools to Introduce Climate Change Into Their Curricula
- George Mason University (VA)
- Georgetown University (DC)
- University of California, San Francisco (CA)
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (NY)
Climate change presents unprecedented health risks and demands universal attention to address them. Multiple intergovernmental organizations, health associations, and health professions schools have recognized the specific importance of preparing physicians ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Seeking impact of medical schools on health: meeting the challenges of social accountability
- University of British Columbia (BC)
Context The acquisition of sums of knowledge and mastery of sophisticated technologies by medical graduates is insufficient for their responsibilities to recognise and adapt to people's evolving needs.
Response ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Caring for a common future: medical schools' social accountability
- University of British Columbia (BC)
Origins and context: The concept of ‘the social accountability of medical schools’ is moving from the peripheral preoccupation of a few to a more central concern of medical schools themselves ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Education for sustainable healthcare: Leadership to get from here to there
- University of North Dakota (ND)
- University of Northern British Columbia (BC)
- University of British Columbia Okanagan (BC)
- Dalarna University
- Swansea University
- International Federation of Medical Students' Associations
The current global crises, including climate, COVID-19, and environmental change, requires global collective action at all scales. These broad socio-ecological challenges require the engagement of diverse perspectives and ways of ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Education for the Anthropocene: Planetary health, sustainable health care, and the health workforce
- University of Cambridge
- Utrecht University
- Ontario Tech University (ON)
- Queen Mary University of London
Over the past few centuries, human activity has wrought dramatic changes in the natural systems that support human life. Planetary health is a useful concept for health profession education (HPE ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Education for sustainable health care: From learning to professional practice
- University of South Dakota (SD)
- University of Calgary (AB)
- Hochschule Esslingen University of Applied Sciences
- Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (NY)
A number of planetary boundaries, including climate change as a result of greenhouse gas emissions, has already been exceeded. This situation has deleterious consequences for public health. Paradoxically, 4.4 ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Education for sustainable healthcare: A transdisciplinary approach to transversal environmental threats
- Monash University (VIC)
- The University of Newcastle (NSW)
- Heidelberg University
- Bond University (Queensland)
Global Environmental Changes are dynamic and complex, crossing disciplines, sectors, regions, and populations and shaping the health of current and future generations. GECs present an unprecedented challenge demanding a response ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Why use indicators to measure and monitor the inclusion of climate change and environmental sustainability in health professions’ education?
- Bond University (Queensland)
- The University of Notre Dame Australia (WA)
Currently, health professionals are inadequately prepared to meet the challenges that climate change and environmental degradation pose to health systems. Health professions’ education (HPE) has an ethical responsibility to address ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Indigenous perspectives on education for sustainable healthcare
- University of North Dakota (ND)
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
- University of Auckland
- Bond University (Queensland)
- El Fondo para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas de América Latina y El Caribe (FILAC)
- Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation (NT)
A range of global environmental changes are contributing to an increasing global burden of disease. Since human health and well-being are intimately associated with the health of our planet, healthcare ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Envisioning planetary health in every medical curriculum: An international medical student organization’s perspective
- University Hassan II (Casablanca-Settat)
- Federal University of Roraima
- University of Dhaka
- University of Khartoum
- International Federation of Medical Students' Associations
- University of Delhi (Delhi)
- University Tunis El Manar (El Omrane Superieur)
- University of Barcelona
Background With deteriorating ecosystems, the health of mankind is at risk. Future health care professionals must be trained to recognize the interdependence of health and ecosystems to address the needs ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Fulfilling a new obligation: Teaching and learning of sustainable healthcare in the medical education curriculum
- Imperial College London
Aims: Leading the growing international recognition of the need for sustainability in healthcare delivery, the UK medical regulator has mandated that newly qualified doctors must be able to apply the ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Rethinking health professions’ education leadership: Developing ‘eco-ethical’ leaders for a more sustainable world and future
- Bond University (Queensland)
- Swansea University
In this commentary, we discuss health professions’ education (HPE) leadership in relation to planetary health emergencies, suggesting that an ‘eco-ethical leadership’ approach is highly relevant. Building on both traditional and ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Building an environmentally accountable medical curriculum through international collaboration
- University of Tasmania (TAS)
- University of Hull
- University of Cape Town
- University of British Columbia (BC)
- University of East Anglia
- Georgetown University (DC)
- University of Edinburgh
- Aarhus University
- University of Melbourne (Victoria)
Background: Global environmental change is associated with significant health threats. The medical profession can address this challenge through advocacy, health system adaptation and workforce preparedness. Stewardship of health systems with ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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12 tips for teaching environmental sustainability to health professionals
- Monash University (VIC)
- The University of Newcastle (NSW)
- University of Melbourne (Victoria)
Background: As recognition of the health impacts of climate change and other environmental challenges increases, so too does the need for health care professionals to practice healthcare sustainably. Environmental sustainability ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Faculty development and partnership with students to integrate sustainable healthcare into health professions education
- Georgetown University (DC)
- University of California, San Francisco (CA)
- Imperial College London
There is an urgent need for health professionals to address the impacts of accelerating global environmental change. Healthcare faculty therefore have to educate the rising generation of health professionals in ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Mandate for the Nursing Profession to Address Climate Change Through Nursing Education
- MGH Institute of Health Professions (MA)
- University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (MA)
- Villanova University (PA)
Purpose The adverse health effects from climate change demand action from the nursing profession. This article examines the calls to action, the status of climate change in nursing education, and ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute
- Northeastern University (MA)
The Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute (SSEHRI) is an interdisciplinary research center that produces publications and trains graduate and post-doc students to build connections between environmental health disciplines like ...
- Posted Sept. 22, 2020
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Environmental competencies for healthcare educators and trainees: A scoping review
- University of Toronto (ON)
Background: The health-care community has a responsibility to address the environmental impact of delivering health-care services. Educational programmes present ideal fora to confer ‘environmental competencies’ to future health system leaders ...
- Posted March 5, 2020
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Medical Centers and Campus Sustainability: Best Practices and Developing a National Network
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
Many institutions of higher education are associated with medical centers and schools. However, engaging hospitals on sustainability has several challenges. Hospitals face different regulatory environments, have different financial circumstances and ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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How Sustainable & Integrated Design Supports the Vital Mission of the Knight Cancer Institute
- Oregon Health & Science University (OR)
- SRG Partnership, Inc (WA)
- Brightworks Sustainability (OR)
Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) is one of the only universities in the U.S. devoted exclusively to educating medical and public health professionals. The ambitious mission of their ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Global and Community Health Certificate
- Clark University (MA)
The Certificate in Global and Community Health helps students take on some of the biggest public health challenges facing humanity by working with communities across the globe. Students will engage ...
- Posted July 26, 2018
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Community and Global Health (MHS)
- Clark University (MA)
Clark University's Master of Health Science (M.H.S.) in Community and Global Health, offered through the International Development, Community, and Environment Department (IDCE), is ideal for students who ...
- Posted July 26, 2018
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Green Healthcare, An Environmentally Sustainable Methodology: An investigation of the ecological impacts of the healthcare industry and the role of Green initiatives in sustainable medical services
- University of Southern California (CA)
This study has been conducted to develop theoretically informed practical knowledge about Green healthcare and to identify how the majority of medical facilities can reduce their carbon footprint effectively. Many ...
- Posted March 29, 2018
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Identification of core objectives for teaching sustainable healthcare education
- University of California, San Francisco (CA)
Physicians will be called upon to care for patients who bear the burden of disease from the impact of climate change and ecologically irresponsible practices which harm ecosystems and contribute ...
- Posted March 12, 2018
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Struggling to Serve at the Nation’s Richest University
- Harvard University (MA)
A New York Times article about the 2016 university dining hall workers' strike at Harvard University. Employees were dissatisfied with a health insurance increase in the face of low wages ...
- Posted Oct. 26, 2016
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Hospital and Lab Sustainability
- Medical University of South Carolina (SC)
This session will consider unique ideas and give unique information on how to green university hospitals and labs. I will outline how the Medical University of South Carolina has tackled ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Growing community: healthcare sustainability in higher education
- Georgetown University (DC)
Higher education is evolving to include healthcare sustainability training. At its core, sustainability is a natural component of healthcare. Sustainability supports the basic healthcare mission to provide safe, quality, compassionate ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Roche Health Center: The Role of Partnerships in Humanitarian Design Projects
- University of Cincinnati (OH)
Since 2004, our local non-profit has had a mission to unite communities to promote Life, Health and Education. Most of the organization's work focuses on three remote and impoverished ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Environment, Energy, Sustainability, and Health Institute (E²SHI)
- Johns Hopkins University (MD)
The Johns Hopkins Environment, Energy, Sustainability, and Health Institute (E²SHI) aims to coordinate and encourage innovative research and teaching that address the health and sustainability problems that society faces as ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Joint Degree in Public Health & Environmental Sciences
- Yale University (CT)
At the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (FES) students take eight core courses and four electives that together are designed to develop a broad multidisciplinary foundation for problem solving ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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MS in Conservation Medicine Program
- Tufts University (MA)
The Master of Science in Conservation Medicine is designed to prepare students from varied backgrounds for a career in conservation medicine. This twelve-month program will build upon an individual student ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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