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Public Health Leadership for Sustainability

The Public Health Specialty Training Curriculum (2015) reflects the central importance of sustainable development to health and requires trainees to “demonstrate leadership in environmental sustainability with a focus on the links to health and climate change”. This interactive course equips public health professionals with leadership skills for environmental sustainability within and outside the health and care sector.

This course offers an overview of the relationship between health, the health sector and the climate and ecological crises, describing impacts but also the enormous potential public health benefits of sustainable transformation. Drawing on real-life examples, the course explores the role of public health in helping to achieve this, how to incorporate environmental sustainability into public health programmes and hone advocacy, partnership working and strategy development skills.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course you will be able to:

Describe the risks the global environmental crisis presents to public health and healthcare systems.
Understand mitigation and adaptation efforts and their potential health co-benefits.
Identify carbon hotspots and understand the basic principles of carbon footprinting and sustainability in quality improvement.
Recognise what is distinctive about leadership in sustainability.
Plan and appraise service developments with reference to the triple bottom line of sustainable value.
Apply the principles of sustainable development planning a sustainability project (or incorporating sustainability into an existing project) in your workplace.