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Kate's background is in public health, wellness, and health care sustainability. She believes that for people to thrive, they need a healthy environment to support positive behavior change. She is passionate about helping partners persevere on their sustainability journey. On the partnership engagement team, Kate manages California and other regional facilities. Kate was born and raised in the Olympic National Park and resides in central Washington. She enjoys experimenting with plant-based recipes, exploring the outdoors, and chasing her son.
Type: Staff
From her former cardiac nursing unit to academia to health organizations across the country, Shanda has led systems to embed sustainability into operations and culture. Armed with a Doctorate in Health Innovation and Leadership, she serves as Affiliate Faculty at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, is published in multiple academic journals, and presents internationally about climate action in health care. Shanda lives in the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in Crestone, Colorado.
Type: Staff
John has been in the sustainability field for over a decade, and most recently at Harvard University’s Office for Sustainability, where he helped advance their healthier building materials program. John earned an MBA and a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University, and he graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a B.S. in molecular and cellular biology. At the start of his career, he worked as a cancer researcher at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. John is excited to be advocating for his two passions: sustainability and public health.
Type: Staff
April is awed by the power of storytelling to inspire action. For more than nine years, she has led communications for dozens of campaigns and projects, sharing hospital successes, quotes, and photos that capture the moment and showing what is possible and amazing about our work. Thanks to her background in creative writing, journalism, and environmental communications, your stories are her beat. April derives her endless joie de vivre from her family, farm-to-table cuisine, mountains, and picking tunes on her ukulele.
Type: Staff
Stacia began directing programs at Health Care Without Harm in 2009. She applies systems analysis at the intersection of human and environmental health to ignite the health sector mission to First Do No Harm by accelerating the uptake of procurement, practice, and policy transitions. Prior to working with the organization she led management of hospital food service and clinical nutrition programs in both small and large scale health care facilities. She brings skills in systems analysis and individual behavior change to the design of programmatic strategy within the organization, reaching… Read More
Type: Staff
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John loves food and spends most of his day thinking about what he will make for dinner. When he isn’t meal planning, John leads the organization’s work on the intersection between food and climate. He supports health care organizations in implementing plant-forward menus, and in reducing food waste through source reduction and donation. He earned his Master of Science from Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition, specializing in the agriculture, food, and environment program.
Type: Staff
Josh works to build a zero emissions, climate resilient, and more equitable health care sector. Since joining Health Care Without Harm in 2005, he has established a series of initiatives including the organization’s Global Green and Healthy Hospitals network. In close collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), Josh spearheaded Health Care Without Harm’s successful worldwide campaign to eliminate mercury in health care and led its more recent work with WHO and the UK COP Presidency to secure commitments from more than 60 governments for sustainable, low-carbon, and climate… Read More
Type: Staff
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 traveling, she loves growing fruit, flowers, and vegetables.
Type: Staff
Betsy is committed to creating sustainable food systems to improve community health and build local economies. Her experience includes research, policy and advocacy, nonprofit operations, and financial management. Betsy holds a Bachelor of Arts in geography and environmental Studies and a Master of Public Administration.
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
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