Hello! We are in the process of confirming and finalising our sessions for the first SSU we have set up entitled 'Medicine, Environmental Sustainability and Healthcare'. Myself and Dr Tom Pierce (lead…
Congratulations to Dr Ann Wylie for winning KCL sustainability award for her work in medical education.
"As a consequence of her efforts, all 450 fourth-year medical students in the new King’s…
This evidence review looks at how the resilience of communities to climate change in the UK is currently understood and practised? It explores this varied and contested field to build the…
The Friends of Woodfield Park, a community group in Doncaster, have recently set up a weekly woodland walk in the grounds of the former St Catherine's Hospital adjacent to Tickhill Road Hospital. Last…
New research by the London School of Economics (LSE) shows that regular brisk walking is the best exercise for keeping weight down. The research compared 30min of high impact walking with the same…
The third of the Priority Learning Outcomes for Sustainable Healthcare requires that medical students:
Discuss how the duty of a doctor to protect and promote health is shaped by the dependence of…
Australian doctors are launching global campaign Doctors for Climate Action today - need as many signatures as possible before the launch, currently 542... http://doctorsforclimateaction.org/
It was exciting to see sustainability centre stage at the major international medical education conference, AMEE 2015, which took place in Glasgow earlier this month.
Dr Sarah Walpole, Research…
Are you an academic or health professional working on sustainable healthcare or environmental health? Would you be able to help healthcare students engage with "the greatest threat to global health of…
Medact seeks to recruit a bright, confident and committed professional with an interest in public health, nutrition and climate change. This is a two year position to manage and implement a…