Hospitals can reduce their climate impact and support the growth of resilient food systems through food purchasing, menuing, waste management, and investing practices. With dietary changes and reduced food waste, we can feed a growing global population sustainably, supporting human and environmental health.
Our food work by region
Latin America
Reduce disease by providing healthier, more sustainable food. The Latin American region strives to help hospitals and health systems improve their food purchasing practices to lessen environmental impact and increase the health of their patients.
See how you can learn more and spark change toward sustainability.
Find out about the considerable role healthy food plays in environmental and human health in Latin America.
Learn about our work in Latin America
U.S. & Canada
We work with health care to leverage their respected voices, purchasing power, investments and other assets to develop food systems that conserve and renew natural resources, advance social justice and animal welfare, build community wealth, and fulfill the food and nutrition needs of all eaters now and into the future.
Our resources and guidance makes it easier for health care to achieve purchasing, climate mitigation, and equity benchmarks.
Our other areas of focus
Climate
Explore how we work with the health care sector to reduce its emissions and build climate-smart, resilient hospitals and communities.
Procurement
Utilize groundbreaking sustainable procurement guidance and tools to improve practices and policy while harnessing health care’s purchasing power to move the market.
Chemicals & Plastics
Find out how hospitals and health systems are reducing hazardous chemicals and single-use plastics to decrease the impact these products have on human health and the environment.
Waste
Uncover strategies to minimize health care waste from hazardous medical waste to food waste with our innovative management, recycling, and disposal guidance.
Pharmaceuticals
Discover how our network is tackling the way we produce, use, and dispose of medicines and antibiotics, and advocating for judicious use and the development of safer, non-toxic drugs.
Energy
Achieve sustainable health care operations by reducing energy consumption and moving to clean, renewable options.
