3 Topic Commentaries

Video: From Accounting to Action on Pharma Sustainability

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  Jodi D. Sherman, MD

  Anesthesiology; Environmental Health; Healthcare Sustainability

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  Yale School of Medicine; Yale School of Public Health

  We can try to create competition in the marketplace by only contracting with companies that are reporting their emissions and using science-based targets to draw down those emissions.

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  Wendy Levinson, MD

  Internal Medicine

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  University of Toronto; St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto

  Manufacturing and transportation of medical equipment, medications, and other supplies—often called the supply chain—account for 60% of health care’s carbon footprint. The other 40% comes from energy use, water, waste, and travel, which are more directly under the control of clinicians, health care leaders, and administrators.

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  Cassandra L. Thiel, PhD

  Sustainable Healthcare; Industrial Ecology; Population Health

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  NYU Grossman School of Medicine

  Environmental emissions from pharmaceutical production were estimated using the economic input-output life cycle assessment (EIO-LCA) model and a free online EIO-LCA tool from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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