Planetary Health Dialogues: Sustainable Healthcare

Featuring Dr Selina Lo, Dr David Pencheon, Professor Nicholas Talley, Professor Anthony Capon, Professor Lynne Madden, Scott McAlister and Dr Forbes McGain.

The first in the series of Planetary Health Dialogues from Monash Sustainable Development Institute (MSDI).

Now, more than ever, healthcare needs to be sustainable on multiple levels: economically, socially and environmentally. This includes energy efficiency and renewable energy, more sustainable food and transport systems, reduced hospital waste and the future of sustainable production of personal protective equipment (PPE) and other critical commodities for health.

Sustainable healthcare is more than economic viability. It also concerns the impact of healthcare on the environment, and how the environment itself can impact on human health.

Dr David Pencheon, the Founding Director of the Sustainable Development Unit in NHS England and Public Health England will join Australian experts to launch the MJA themed issue on sustainable healthcare and discuss co-benefits from health, environmental and climate change efforts in the context of the recent bushfires and the current pandemic.