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Each Planetary Health Report Card is reviewed by a member of the leadership team before it is published. Reports are reviewed for quality, formatting and score calculation. Read more about it here...

A Planetary Health Agenda for the GMC

The PHRC have been collaborating with the General Medical Council after advocating for inclusion of planetary health in education policy documents within the UK. Here we describe the background to...

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Publications

Navarrete-Welton A, Chen JJ, Byg B, Malani K, Li ML, Martin KD, Warrier S. A grassroots approach for greener education: An example of a medical student-driven planetary health curriculum. Frontiers in Public Health. Published September 26, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1013880 

Nordrum OL, Kirk A, Lee SA, Haley K, Killilea D, Khalid I, Pérez EC, Waters I, Yan R, Zulfiqar S, Stanistreet D. Planetary health education in medical curricula in the Republic of Ireland. Medical Teacher. Published May 18, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2022.2072279

Hampshire K, Islam N, Kissel B, Chase H, Gundling K. The Planetary Health Report Card: A student-led initiative to inspire planetary health in medical schools. The Lancet Planetary Health. Published May 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00045-6

Chase H, Hampshire K, Tun S. Improving the medical curriculum on planetary health and sustainable healthcare. The BMJ Opinion. Published Jan 25, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o209

England V, McPhee H, Wells R, Westwood R. QUB Students: Changing the Climate of Planetary Health Education. Ulster Medical Journal. Published online Nov 11, 2021. https://www.ums.ac.uk/umj090/090(3)142.pdf

Lok P. How can I be an environmentally conscious healthcare practitioner? The BMJ Opinion. Published online October 7, 2021. https://bit.ly/3IziErE

Moore A. A planetary health curriculum for medicine. BMJ. Published October 6, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2385

Kerr M, Brenna C. Championing green practices and climate action: The role of healthcare trainees. The Journal of Climate Change and Health. Published online October 2021. doi: 10.1016/j.joclim.2021.100074

Hampshire K and Fadadu R, Ndovu A. Medical Students as Agents of Change in the Climate Crisis. Academic Medicine. Accepted August 2021.

Duckworth M, Boehler-Tatman M, Hsu S. Preparing the Next Generation of Health Professionals to Tackle Climate Change. Academic Medicine. Accepted August 2021.

Shaw E, Walpole S, McLean M, et al. AMEE Consensus Statement: Planetary health and education for sustainable healthcare. Medical Teacher. Published online Feb 19, 2021. DOI:10.1080/0142159X.2020.1860207

Tun S, Wellbery C, Teherani A. Faculty development and partnership with students to integrate sustainable healthcare into health professions education. Medical Teacher. Published online August 7, 2020:1-7. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2020.1796950

Conference Presentations

COP27: Climate Education Hub. Bhargavi Chekuri, Terry O’Connor, Karly Hampshire, Anandita Pattnaik, Melvine Anyango Otieno, Natasha Sood. “Bringing Health Professionals to the Table in Climate Action with Medical Education”. November 2022. Recording here

New Hampshire Healthcare Workers for Climate Action Webinar Series. Karly Hampshire and Jessinta Palack. “The Planetary Health Report Card: An Institutional Advocacy Tool”. October 2022. Recording here

Sustainability in Education Conference. Ellie Self and Ashley Lam. “Planetary Health Report Card”. October 2022.

Etablierung der Planetary Health Report Card in Deutschland. J. Schmid, A. Mumm, E-M. Schwienhorst-Stich, A. Simmenroth. September 2022

Health Justice and Belonging: Washington State University College of Medicine Inclusive Excellence Scholar in Residence Conference. Ella Jarvik. “WSU Planetary Health Report Card and Sustainability Plan”. February 2022.

CleanMed Europe Conference. Megan Duckworth. December 2021.

12th World Congress on Adolescent Health- Meeting the Challenge of Global Change. Esmeralda Cecilie Pérez. “Changing the climate of medical education: how students are driving the inclusion of climate change into the Irish medical curriculum” in workshop “Environmental Health and Global Action”. November 2021.

14th European Public Health Conference. Esmeralda Cecilie Pérez. “Changing the climate of medical education: a medical student’s perspective” in workshop “Developing a European planetary health curriculum model. Can we adapt Ireland’s approach?”. November 2021.

Northern Ireland Confederation for Health and Social Care (NICON) Conference. Health and Social Care and Climate Change: Moving up our agenda?. Victoria England. October 2021.

Sino-American Youth Dialogue on Climate Change. Fulfilling a new obligation: Teaching and learning of sustainable healthcare in the medical education curriculum. Megan Duckworth. October 2021.

*Best presentation award

Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education Webinar. Nuzhat Islam and Taylor Diedrich. September 2021.

Norcal Symposium for Climate, Health and Equity. Megan Duckworth. September 2021.

Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) Virtual Conference. Symposium session. Karly Hampshire and Hannah Chase. “Planetary Health and Education for Sustainable Healthcare: We’re Going This Way”. August 2021.

Climate Justice Symposium for Transforming Education. Lightning Talk. Karly Hampshire. “The Planetary Health Report Card: An Institutional Advocacy Tool.” April 2021. (Awarded first place in lightning talk competition)

Poster Presentations

Tsatsari S, Barbot M, Spring C, Sanders A, Tyson Y, Mcilroy D. Mobilising medical students for climate action: The Planetary Health Report Card example at a UK medical school. Planetary Health Annual Meeting. October 2022.

Dorchuck E, Keirns D, Townley E. Impetus for Planetary Health Curriculum at Creighton University School of Medicine. Association of American Medical Colleges GSA-CiM-OSR National Meeting. April 2022.

Hampshire K. The Planetary Health Report Card: A Student-Led Institutional Advocacy Tool. Sinai Exposomics Clinical Climate Change Conference. January 2022. *First place in poster competition

Hampshire K, Potarazu S, and Hsu S. Catalyzing the Integration of Planetary Health in MedEd: The Role of Medical Students and the Planetary Health Report Card. American Medical Association Change MedEd Conference. September 2021

Lee J and Murugesh J. Planetary Health Report Card – Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Sustainable Healthcare Academic Research and Enterprise (SHARE) Conference. Oral poster presentation. May 2021.