Love the Food Is Medicine approach! Cool fact 1: Healthy foods are not only good for the heart but also good for the planet (with lower carbon emissions). ❤️🌎 Cool fact 2: Cashlike interventions make healthy foods more affordable, increase participant choice, and lower

Congrats @GreeningDoc Hardeep Singh MD !!! Thank you for bringing attention to the problem of single-use plastics in healthcare.

Couldn’t be more proud of these two! Watch out for manuscripts coming soon…

VCHRI researcher Dr. Andrea MacNeill spoke with The New York Times about the importance of designing medical tools to be capable of years of reuse, benefiting both human & planetary health: ow.ly/88zv50QI2L2 Andrea MacNeill Vancouver Coastal Health

#InTheNews – Vancouver Coastal Health planetary health expert Dr. Andrea MacNeill was featured in Hospital News for her research on reducing greenhouse gas emissions through sustainable health care. Read the March 2024 issue online: ow.ly/bEPG50QMUBR @ecosurgeon

Honoured to have richard horton join us last week for the first in-person meeting of the Lancet Commission on Sustainable Healthcare. He offers words of wisdom about what we’re up against in this week’s The Lancet.

We joined Dr.Annie Lalande & Chef Ned Bell in an op-ed about how #healthcare professionals have an opportunity to harness the power of food to improve #climateaction, #healthequity, and community well-being. vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/…

Happy #EarthDay! Read how recent research led by Dr. Andrea MacNeill shows that sustainable health care can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions & mitigate impacts of climate change 🌎 vchri.ca/stories/2024/0… Andrea MacNeill Vancouver Coastal Health @UBCmedicine

.UBC IRES • bsky.app/profile/ires.ubc.ca PhD student and surgical resident Dr. Annie Lalande co-led a pilot which introduced plant-based and sustainable food choices to patients at Vancouver General Hospital. via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/life/article-h…

🌟 Panel highlight: Implementing Sustainable Solutions in Clinical Care Delivery Join Yale Center on Climate Change & Health & @NYAMNYC for this groundbreaking event on sustainable health systems. #ClimateWeekNYC #YaleAtClimateWeek Register: HealthSystemsClimateAction.com DAVID W CALLAWAY Andrea MacNeill Fiona A. Miller

Highlight of #NYClimateWeek is participating in first summit to focus on sustainable healthcare & moderating workforce resilience panel. From philanthropy to clinical care delivery to greenwashing, the summit had it all. Big thank you to @GreeningDoc Yale Center on Climate Change & Health @NYAMNYC 🙌

"The urgency of mitigating climate change cannot change financial facts" - The Times and The Sunday Times Oh and which financial facts are those?!😠 (Time for an angry thread🧵) 1/n

1/ 📢 [Publication Alert] I’m thrilled to share our new paper in The Lancet Planetary Health entitled: "Evaluating progress and accountability for achieving COP26 Health Programme international ambitions for sustainable, low-carbon, resilient health-care systems." #SustainableHealthcare

Highly recommend this event featuring my fabulous PhD student Annie Lalande and good friend and colleague Sonja Janousek (both of whom have the good sense to avoid X)! They have produced a valuable resource as part of their efforts toward sustainable food system transformation 💚

The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change @CAPE-ACME Canadian Medical Association Cdn Public Health Assoc. Climate Proof Canada Steven Guilbeault Global Climate and Health Alliance Planetary Health Alliance @AFMC_e Geneviève Moineau Dr. Joss Reimer Dr. Kathleen Ross Andrea MacNeill Dr. Melissa Lem Sehjal Bhargava, MD, MPH, CCFP .The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change Policy Brief for #Canada Recommendation 3/3: Harness the purchasing power in our hospital trays to steward a #climate-resilient local food economy by signing the #CoolFoodPledge with Nourish. 😋/fin cpha.ca/sites/default/…

Israeli media reporting that the IDF is declaring northern Gaza effectively ethnically cleansed, not event a hint of pretense now that its election day

While insufficient finance commitments threaten to halt negotiations, countries had no problem in finding US$ 1.4 trillion to subsidise fossil fuels in 2022 alone. Taking externalities into account they rise to 7trillion Time to redirect funds towards a healthy, equitable future

NEW: The Oxford Union has voted that "Israel is an apartheid state responsible for genocide" by an overwhelming majority of 278 to 59

“Years from now, no doubt, politicians will come together to memorialize the genocide in Gaza, but more important than those words of memoriam in future years is action right now … when will the government's actions align with its words when it says, Never again?” - Mike Morrice

Congratulations Kasun!