Join ELESH and the HSPR Trainee Committee on Environmental Sustainability as we share our recommendations with CIHR-IHSPR and CSHS!

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored that our health services and systems must transform in order to respond to major crises. Underpinning the pandemic is the disrupted link between humans and the environment, which has a profound impact on health and well-being in Canada and globally. As health services and policy researchers, we have a responsibility to transform health systems to be more equitable, resilient and sustainable. In order to do so, we must critically appraise how sustainability factors into the ways we conduct research, what research we conduct, and what we teach and learn.

This fall, we brought together 10 students from across Canada to join members of the Emerging Leaders for Environmental Sustainability in Healthcare (ELESH) to form the HSPR Trainee Committee on Environmental Sustainability. During the month of October, the committee members considered how environmental sustainability factors into three key areas relating to health services and policy research: curriculum, conduct and content. Using the findings of these sessions we have developed a number of recommendations to be shared with the health services and policy research community.

Join us for our inaugural trainee-led virtual town hall as we share our recommendations with stakeholders from CIHR-IHSPR and the Centre for Sustainable Health Systems. Click here to register!