A groundbreaking new guide available for GGHH members, featuring stories from 25 health care organizations around the globe, offers a roadmap to develop a sustainable purchasing strategy that prioritizes community and environmental health and safety while reducing costs.
July 22, 2020
Although only a few short months have passed since the 2020s began, it feels like a lifetime ago. The new year dawned with the coronavirus tempest throwing business as usual for most everyone on the planet to the wind. We may well look back at the end of 2019 as the closing out not only of a decade, but of a chapter of modern human history. Yet that chapter, and what we did last year, is still highly relevant in helping us decide how we will move forward.
July 02, 2020
The recording of our latest webinar, Success stories from the Sustainable Health in Procurement Project (SHiPP), as well as its presentations are now available for GGHH members to access on GGHH Connect.
June 25, 2020
As the pandemic rages on and the governments try to stave off the economy from hemorrhaging any further, it is crucial to truly consider investments that would strengthen reliability and resilience of the health sector in order for it to continue defending and advancing the health of citizens.
June 25, 2020
A green, equitable and resilient post-COVID pathway for health and healthcare.
June 12, 2020
To mark World Environment Day (5 June), the European Children’s Hospitals Organisation (ECHO) last week made a Green Promise – building on existing efforts at individual children’s hospitals with the collective ambition to support the global effort to tackle environmental threats to children’s health.
June 09, 2020
Health Care Without Harm Global and its Global Green and Healthy Hospital (GGHH) program are pleased to announce an upcoming webinar on the success stories from the Sustainable Health in Procurement Project (SHiPP) on the eve of World Environment day, June 4 2020.
May 29, 2020
Join us on this upcoming webinar, June 10 12:00 – 12:00 CEST (Central European Standard Time) to discuss the strategic opportunity of food procurement in healthcare and to launch Health Care Without Harm Europe’s latest Sustainable Food publication: How to green food services in European healthcare.
May 29, 2020
Join the virtual round table discussion organized by GGHH and Health Care Without Harm SE Asia on May 15.
May 11, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues around the world and in Africa, the health care sector is developing strategies and best practices to ensure the safe and sustainable management of waste material and equipment contaminated with the coronavirus.
May 11, 2020
The rapid spread of the corona virus globally has exposed the vulnerability of the global supply chains, especially in the health sector. This time of crisis has reminded us of our need for agile supply chains and for sustainability management systems that can help mitigate negative impacts of procurement of medical supplies on health and environment during pandemics.
May 10, 2020
We are facing a global crisis that puts an extraordinary and unprecedented burden on health systems, organizations, and professionals. On every continent, health care workers continue to care for people with COVID-19 despite the risks to their families and their own health.
May 05, 2020