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Our objective is to ensure health systems are resilient to climate impacts and are actively supporting community climate resilience as anchor institutions.

Established in 2019, the HCWH Europe member placement programme helps strengthen our relationships with our members and further develop the team’s knowledge and understanding of contemporary environmental issues affecting members as well as learning more about the strategies developed in response.

This patient education brochure explains how climate change is impacting the number and frequency of extreme heat events, how extreme heat affects the human body, and how people can take steps to protect themselves and their loved ones. Spanish versionThis poster explains how extreme heat affects the human body. It is designed for a waiting room or other community and patient space at a hospital or out-paitient facility.Visit our website for additional patient educational materials on climate and health topics.

Carolina Gil Posse - Directora de programas y comunicaciones para América LatinaAndrea Hurtado Epstein - Gerenta del programa de cambio climático para América LatinaJaquelina Tapia - Gerenta técnica de programas para América LatinaClaudia Paz Giraldo - Facilitadora técnica de proyectos para América LatinaMás información sobre el equipo global (en inglés)Carolina Gil Posse - Directora de programas y comunicaciones para América LatinaCarolina lidera la estrategia de comunicación de Salud sin Daño en la región, además de coordinar los programas, las iniciativas y las alianzas que se desarrollan en el marco de la Red Global de Hospitales Verdes y Saludables en América Latina. Es responsable de las actividades de capacitación para trabajadores de salud, como el programa virtual de formación en liderazgo de la salud por el clima y los seminarios web, y del desarrollo de ...

Si el sector de la salud fuese un país, sería el quinto emisor más grande del planeta. Eso indica el nuevo reporte Huella climática del sector de la salud. Cómo contribuye el sector de la salud a la crisis climática global: oportunidades para la acción, de Salud sin Daño, en colaboración con Arup.

5th Green Hospitals Asian Conference at the Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, SingaporeOctober 8 - 10, 2019

Primera edición: realizada entre el 12 de noviembre y el 3 de diciembre de 2019. Segunda edición: del 3 al 21 de octubre de 2022.

Organized by Health Care Without Harm and its Global Green and Healthy Hospitals (GGHH) program, this webinar will present the findings and recommendations from the Health Care Without Harm report on Health care’s climate footprint and showcase the innovative solutions that members of the GGHH network are implementing around the world to take climate action and reduce the climate footprint of the health care sector.   In September 2019 Health Care Without Harm, in collaboration with Arup, published the Health care climate footprint report. The report establishes the first-ever global estimate of health care’s climate...

Learn which companies and health systems are driving change and what health care leadership can do to encourage market transformation.

Read the profiles below and be inspired by the ways members of Health Care Without Harm’s Physician Network are taking action to promote climate-smart health care, protecting their patients from climate change and environmental threats, and advocating for a sustainable future.

The Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the Australian College of Rural & Remote Medicine, and the Australian College of Emergency Physicians declared climate change a health emergency, urged governments to take action, and to implement policies and strategies to mitigate its impact and promote adaptation. Their announcement follows the Australian Medical Association's recent declaration of climate change a "health emergency".

Health care’s climate footprint is a report developed by Health Care Without Harm in collaboration with Arup. It provides the most comprehensive global analysis of health care’s contribution to climate change to date.