Panel Descriptions

Confirmed dates and times

  • September 26th, 1700-1900 (5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.)

  • September 27th, 0800-1700 (8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.)

A detailed agenda coming soon. See below for confirmed topics.

Accounting and oversight of sustainable healthcare transformation: how do we avoid greenwashing?

The UN Secretary-General warns that decarbonization pledges must be matched with measurable data and calls for zero tolerance for greenwashing. Greenwashing risks failure to meet commitments to mitigate pollution and avert the worst predicted threats to national and global security. This panel will review key laws and regulatory levers in the EU and US (SEC and California) to avert greenwashing by compelling standard disclosures and science-based mitigation targets, financial incentives, and example actions by healthcare suppliers and procurers.

Clinical care workforce: readiness and resilience

Worker well-being is fundamental to resilient health systems. Healthcare workers value employers that act as good corporate citizens with respect to environmental performance. As the world becomes more digitized, healthcare solutions must improve outcomes, sustainably, ensuring worker well-being through user-centered design. Technologies can better prepare the clinical workforce, from training and assessing competencies, predicting capacity readiness, and re-designing care delivery during disaster and recovery.

Cities, facilities and utilities: healthcare infrastructure mitigation, adaptation and resilience

Developing sustainable, climate-ready cities is key to help support healthier populations and ecosystems. Ensuring healthcare and public health systems are integrated into adaptation planning is vital. This panel will review sustainable urban planning methods, including satellite mapping of hyperlocal climate projections that are already being used to implement data-driven long-term solutions that bolster health system resilience and sustainability.

Healthcare organization case studies: implementing sustainable solutions in clinical care delivery

While sustainable solutions exist for healthcare facilities operations and energy management, clinical care transformation must also include environmentally preferable material selection, resource stewardship, health promotion and disease prevention strategies. This panel covers novel innovations in perioperative supply chain management, hospital food management, and whole-organization accounting and strategic planning. International tools to guide evidence-based sustainable solutions will be shared.