Sustainability at the School of Medicine - committee and supporting staff

Staff and students involved in our sustainability work in the School.

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Flowchart detailing the organisational structure of the School of Medicine's Sustainability efforts

The Sustainability Committee has leads in:

  • Undergraduate teaching
  • Postgraduate teaching
  • Operations
  • Laboratory based research
  • Clinical research

We are making progress with the Support teams, and Clinical Research. These leads have formed small subcommittees with targets for improving sustainability in their area. Please feel free to contact these leads if you wish to join a group (see structure). If your area doesn’t yet have a lead then contact us if you are interested.

We are working hard, with your support, to achieve appropriate sustainability targets, which will be reported in the Planetary Health Report Card for Medical Schools. This ranks our Medical School on its Sustainability achievements against other Medical Schools. It will be collated by us along with our medical student lead member, Anna, and her student helpers.

The following structure highlights the different areas of School of Medicine sustainability work, and the staff volunteering to work within these areas.

Objective No 1a: Planetary Health Curriculum

Students

  • Tim Smith
  • Vanessa Kay
  • Rodney Mountain
  • Vicki Tully

Objective No 1b: Planetary Health Curriculum

Staff

  • Andrew Murphy, Talent and Development team

Objective No 2: Research in Health and Environment

  • Jill Belch, Discovery team

Objective no 3: Community Outreach and Advocacy

  • Amy Rogers, Public Engagement Team
  • Vicki Tully and Jill Belch will also focus on Outreach and Advocacy within the community

Objective No 4: Support for Student-Led Planetary Health Initiatives

  • Tim Smith
  • Vanessa Kay
  • Rodney Mountain
  • Vicki Tully

Links with the Eden Project team – projects aimed at green health & wellbeing and initiatives aimed at supporting nature-based health and care.

Objective No 5a: Laboratory and Clinical Research Sustainability

  • Gwen Kennedy
  • Laura Burgess
  • Val Godfrey
  • Marney Keiller

Objective No 5b: Operations Sustainability

  • Laura Burgess
  • Richard Scrivener

Objective No 5c: General School Sustainability

  • Jill Belch
  • Richard Scrivener
  • Laura Burgess
  • Gwen Kennedy

Our team will continually review our planetary health engagement, and work to improve it, bringing in new people as needed.