Decarbonising our healthcare, a prescription for action
with Dr Renee Beale, Dr Rebecca Patrick and Dr Mike ForresterImages of single-use face masks have become synonymous with the COVID-19 pandemic, sparking conversations about the sustainability of our healthcare systems. In this episode, we explore just how sustainable our current healthcare system is, and what can be done to improve it for the health of our future generations.
Images of single-use face masks have become synonymous with the COVID-19 pandemic, sparking conversations about the sustainability of our healthcare systems. In this episode, host Dr Renee Beale is joined by Dr Rebecca Patrick and Dr Mike Forrester from the Institute for Health Transformation to explore just how sustainable our current healthcare system is, and what can be done to improve it for the health of our future generations.
Rebecca is an executive member of the Institute’s Determinants of Health team where her research focus is climate change and health as well as sustainable healthcare, and Director of Deakin University’s Sustainable Healthcare Network.
Mike is a consultant paediatrician at Barwon Health, Vic Chair of Doctors for the Environment Australia, Clinical Lead of the Deakin Sustainable Healthcare Network and Senior Research Fellow at IHT.
