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Ruth coordinates waste work for the global team and contributes to projects on plastics, procurement, chemicals, and climate. She has worked in over 40 countries, investigating hazardous waste, fixing hospital waste systems, and advising on pollution prevention policies. Her background is in biochemistry and chemistry, followed by over 15 years in academia, researching environmental pollution. When she is not travelling, she loves growing fruit, flowers, and vegetables.
Type: Staff
Amy is an emergency medicine physician and passionate advocate for sustainable health care and planetary health. Inspired by her son, she led her hospital green team for many years and now supports and inspires physicians interested in promoting climate-smart health care. She believes strongly that physicians and the health care sector can lead the way toward a healthy, sustainable future. Amy enjoys travel, plant-based cooking, a good workout, and long walks in the woods with her dogs.
Type: Staff
Susan manages the UNDP/World Health Organization/Health Care Without Harm health care waste management and mercury elimination project in Africa and the Health Care Without Harm/UNDP sustainable health in procurement project in 10 countries. She works on waste (let’s talk trash!), chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and procurement and represents health sector civil society on the Bureau of the International Conference on Chemicals Management. Susan previously worked as a technical officer for WHO in Geneva, Switzerland. She lives on a boat in the Salish Sea.
Type: Staff
Michelle has worked on environmental health for 25 years, and has bridged many programs during her 12 years at Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth. Michelle's true passion is working with people, and she currently focuses on building team cohesion, leadership, and facilitating internal meetings. A former camp director, she loves organizing our retreat talent shows. Michelle and her family live in Marblehead, Mass., where she serves on the Board of Health and worked to eliminate single-use plastic bags and polystyrene.
Type: Staff
Robyn is dedicated to helping our planet and the health and welfare of its inhabitants. She has extensive policy and health experience and thrives on using communication and collaboration to create impactful change. When not working, Robyn can be found running, spending time with her husband and twin girls, or spoiling her two cats.
Type: Staff
Sister Mary Ellen Leciejewski serves as the vice president for corporate responsibility for Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest health care systems. Headquartered in San Francisco, Dignity Health provides patient-centered care at more than 380 care centers, including 39 acute care hospitals in California, Arizona, and Nevada. Leciejewski is responsible for directing Dignity Health’s sustainability initiatives and the development and implementation of system-wide policies and practices that promote care for Earth and use of sustainable resources. In her role, she facilitates… Read More
Type: Staff
Denise Fairchild is the inaugural president of Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC), a national nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. with affiliates in major urban centers across the United States. She is charged with advancing ECC’s “high road” mission to green our cities, build resilient local economies, and ensure equity inclusion in both the process and the outcomes of a new green and healthy economy. Fairchild is nationally recognized and respected for her 40-year successful track record and innovative programs in sustainable community development, domestically and… Read More
Type: Staff
Tory Dietel Hopps is managing partner at Dietel Partners, where she manages portfolios for clients with both domestic and international interests. She works closely with the Dietel Partners team to define strategy, identify grantee and funding partners, and provide assistance to grantees with their strategies, resource development, and capacity building needs. Dietel Hopps works closely with funding partners to help with field building in the areas of interest to her clients. She believes strongly in working toward better dynamics between the funding and grantseeking communities and takes a… Read More
Type: Staff
John Cleveland is president and a founder of the Innovation Network for Communities, a national nonprofit whose mission is to develop and spread scalable innovations that transform the performance of community systems. He has been working for over 30 years in human, social, and natural capital formation strategies, sustainable development, green building design, organizational learning, socially responsible businesses, school reform, and economic development. He also serves as the part-time executive director for the Boston Green Ribbon Commission, a high-level CEO group in Boston that… Read More
Type: Staff
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Blair L. Sadler is senior fellow for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and a faculty member at the University of California-San Diego Schools of Medicine and Management. Under his leadership as former president and CEO, Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego received the Ernest A. Codman Award for its work in developing clinical pathways. Sadler was a board member of the Center for Health Design, has been heavily involved in developing the business case for building better hospitals through evidence-based design, and was a founder of the Center's Pebble program that… Read More
Type: Staff
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