Training
We offer a suite of continuing professional development training programs for individuals in health systems working towards environmentally sustainable healthcare.
Our programs connect you to a growing movement of change-makers while developing the skills required to advance climate action in healthcare.
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Introduction to Sustainable Health Systems
This self-paced online course will introduce you to:
- the relationship between climate change, health, and health systems
- the concept of sustainable health systems
- ways you might incorporate climate action and sustainability into your work while supporting system-level change
…and it’s a prerequisite for most CASCADES courses!
Develop skills, and forge collaborations through interactive, experiential learning in this synchonous, Zoom-based course.
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Build your base
Introduction to Sustainable Health Systems
This self-paced online course will introduce you to:
- the relationship between climate change, health, and health systems
- the concept of sustainable health systems
- ways you might incorporate climate action and sustainability into your work while supporting system-level change
…and it’s a prerequisite for most CASCADES courses!
Develop skills, and forge collaborations through interactive, experiential learning in this synchonous, Zoom-based course.
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Implementation and knowledge exchange
A collaborative space to discuss, troubleshoot, and celebrate efforts across settings and specialties
Specialized courses
Strategies and system enablers
CASCADES and CQUIPS+ Masterclass. Paid course.
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Members of the healthcare community develop their environmental measurement literacy, learn to generate basic carbon footprints, and enhance their ability to tackle sustainability challenges in an informed and systematic way.
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Explore the deep ties between sustainability and quality and equip participants with an understanding of how QI approaches and models can be used to deliver critical care that is not only more efficient and effective, but also more environmentally sustainable.
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Designed to offer Canadian health leaders a new avenue to build knowledge, skills and networks across Canada’s healthcare community to promote and deliver sustainable health systems.
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Spotlight on care delivery
Many opportunities exist to address the resource intensity of perioperative care while ensuring and promoting high quality care.
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Explore opportunities and ongoing efforts to enhance the sustainability of inhaler prescribing, dispensing, use, and disposal while maintaining high-quality care.
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Other learning opportunities
Through guided learning activities, meetings with local sustainability leaders and nation-wide panel discussions, the Summer Institute aims to develop trainee knowledge, leadership skills and capabilities, and build professional, interdisciplinary networks of trainees and professionals with shared interests.
Read about the 2024 Summer Institute
June 10 – 13, 2024
Canadian College of Health Leaders Health Leadership Specialty: Sustainable Health Systems
Health leaders can now boost their competence in sustainable health systems – at a time when it has never been more important.
The Canadian College of Health Leaders (CCHL) and CASCADES are partnering to offer health leaders in Canada a new avenue to leverage, build knowledge, skills and networks across Canada’s healthcare community to promote and deliver sustainable health systems.
Health leaders can pursue Health Leadership Specialties (HLS) and earn credit towards the newly minted CCHL Fellowship Select Program.
Through the HLS in Sustainable Health Systems, Canadian health leaders will undertake the Fundamentals of Sustainable Health Systems course and one of the advanced courses. Participants will apply their learning in their workplace and write a paper on the impact and experience of knowledge translation. The paper is reviewed by a panel of three CCHL Fellowship Evaluators, who may award the Health Leadership Specialty in Sustainable Health Systems.
Past offerings
Fundamentals of Sustainable Perioperative Care
Climate Conscious Inhalers Prescribing
La prescription écoresponsable des inhalateurs au Québec
Environmentally Sustainable Kidney Care Workshop
Using QI to build sustainable, low carbon, resilient and equitable healthcare: Collaboration with CQUIPS+
Leading sustainable health systems: Collaboration with Canadian Medical Association
Breakthrough Series Collaborative
Using QI methodology and the “Breakthrough Series Collaborative” (BSC) approach developed and tested by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, local sustainable healthcare innovations that have promising results in the testing phase are spread to multiple sites and regions across Canada for further validation.
The BSC was a focused (6-12 month) spread initiative that brings together interested teams from healthcare settings across regions seeking improvement in one sustainability area (e.g., procurement, anesthetic gases, asthma inhalers, etc.).
Recent Collaborative
Climate Conscious Inhaler Prescribing Collaborative
Introduction to Sustainable Health Systems
Introduction to Sustainable Health Systems is a free self-paced online course for anyone working in the Canadian healthcare system.
- the relationship between climate change, health, and health systems
- the concept of sustainable health systems
- ways you might incorporate climate action and sustainability into your work while supporting system-level change