Climate Action and Sustainability in Academic Medicine

Laboratories consume 5-10 times more energy than typical office spaces, plus large amounts of water, chemicals, and materials. Add in copious amounts of waste, and labs in academic medical centers and universities have large carbon footprints. How can lab owners and managers, sustainability directors, designers and engineers, principal investigators and researchers, and graduate students and post-docs help make science more sustainable?

Join this collaborative meeting of the Climate Action and Sustainability in Academic Medicine community as three experts on sustainable science and green labs discuss the opportunities to reduce energy usage and waste, promote recycling of lab materials, and foster innovation in laboratory processes.

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Launched in 2023, the Climate Action and Sustainability in Academic Medicine Community forum is designed for individuals at academic health systems who have a professional or educational interest in sustainability and climate action across their organizational missions (clinical care, research, education, community engagement, and operations and facilities). This community is supported by the American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE), the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), and Practice Greenhealth.