This webinar explores how Fraser Health, Interior Health, and Vancouver Coastal Health developed Planetary Health strategies to support climate-resilient, sustainable, and low-carbon health systems between 2023 and 2024. It features authors of a new CASCADES resource, including Karen Reutlinger, Amanda McKenzie, Kady Hunter, and Breanna Gregory, who discuss governance, leadership, strategic alignment, measurement, and key lessons for organizations developing similar sustainability strategies.
This webinar explores how climate change and environmental degradation pose growing risks to health systems, while healthcare itself contributes significantly to carbon emissions, resource use, and pollution. It features teams from Interior Health, Vancouver Coastal Health, and Fraser Health, who share their Climate Change and Sustainability Roadmap and Planetary Health strategies, including how these plans were developed and integrated into organizational decision-making.
Guided by CASCADES’ playbook “Strategic Planning for Planetary Health and Sustainable Care” this tool provides seven organizational practices to guide and advance strategic planning for sustainable healthcare. This tool is not a scorecard; it is a reflective guide to support dialogue, alignment, and strategic decision-making within leadership structures to advances strategic planning for planetary health and sustainable care. After completing the assessment, you will receive a summary report of your responses by email.
This video introduces the HealthcareLCA database, an open-access evidence repository that consolidates healthcare environmental impact assessments into a single searchable platform. It features the creators of HealthcareLCA, including Dr. Jonathan Drew, Dr. Chantelle Rizan, and Dr. Sean Christie, who demonstrate how the tool can be used to explore and analyze data on healthcare’s environmental impacts.
