Transitions to Sustainable Healthcare

What is sustainable healthcare?

Australia’s healthcare is facing many challenges including rising demand and increasing costs, workforce shortages, and seemingly intractable inequities in health outcomes. Added to this is the increasing threat to the health of our climate, greater pollution, and loss of biodiversity.

Sustainable healthcare offers a huge opportunity to meet the needs of current generations, without harming the health of natural systems on which our health depends. By working and thinking differently it aims to get better value from available resources while minimising harm to the planet, and create health systems that are fit for a rapidly changing environment.
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How can we make health systems more sustainable?

We create change through deep collaboration and co-design, working in close partnership with government, industry and communities, tailoring our approach to address the organisational need.

Hear from Dr Angie Bone, Adjunct Professor of Practice,  Planetary Health; Professor Peter Bragge, Director Evidence Review Service; Annette Bos, Deputy Director, Education; Denise Goodwin, Research Fellow.

The MSDI approach

MSDI brings a powerful set of capabilities to making systems more sustainable and resilient, including expertise in systemic climate change and behaviour change through our major initiatives Climateworks Centre and Behaviourworks Australia.

Our body of work in applied research, evidence review, capacity and capability building, and policy design has been instrumental in helping us co-develop and implement solutions that have created real world impact.

Transitions to Sustainable Health Systems Consortium

We are bringing together voices from across policy, practice and research to collectively identify priorities and practical actions to accelerate emissions reduction in the Australian health system.

Convened by the Monash Sustainable Development Institute (MSDI), the consortium has 15 founding members spanning federal and state government health departments, metropolitan and regional hospitals, private health providers, professional bodies and peak bodies for Aboriginal-controlled community health organisations.

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The sustainable health systems team

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MSDI is a member of the Alliance for Transformative Action on Climate and Health (ATACH)