Healthy People, Healthy Planet: Reducing Healthcare’s Environmental Footprint - Live Webinar on February 18, 2025 8PM EST
Learn strategies to minimize healthcare's environmental impact, promote sustainability, and support global health through eco-conscious practices and innovative solutions.
About this webinar
This activity will equip pharmacists with the knowledge they need to start taking action in their practice setting. This course is a practical overview of the problem at hand and ways we can collectively help solve it. We will go over current best practices for reducing emissions, water use, and waste. Using case studies from successful initiatives across the country and the world, we will discover ways we can implement positive change in our practice settings. We will also discuss the pharmacy's responsibility in complying with relevant legislation and guidelines, including RCRA and USP 800. We will end the presentation with a brief overview of quality improvement so that pharmacy staff have a basic understanding of how to approach a new initiative.
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
Pharmacists
Describe the impacts of healthcare, including pharmacy practice, on environmental degradation and climate change.
Recognize environmental legislation and guidelines relevant to pharmacy practice, including RCRA, USP 800, and medication take-back programs.
Analyze ways pharmacies can reduce their environmental impacts.
Identify basic project management tools that help with the successful implementation of new initiatives.
Discuss the degrowth movement and recognize the role of degrowth in transforming the healthcare sector.
Pharmacy Technicians
Describe the impact healthcare has on the environment around us, and why it is important for us to act.
Recognize environmental legislation and guidelines that affect the daily practice of pharmacy technicians, including RCRA, USP 800, and medication takeback.
Analyze how other pharmacy and healthcare practices have reduced their environmental impact.
Identify basic project management skills necessary to take action.
Discuss the degrowth movement and its role in the healthcare sustainability transition.
Instructors
Alex Evans is a pharmacist and medical writer based in Jacksonville, FL. He is currently serving as a pharmacy project manager for Ascension Health, where he assists with retail operations and compliance. Alex was part of the UCSF-Safeway national campaign launch to AAR at every pharmacy encounter and served as Safeway’s media representative for the state of Hawai’i. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy from UNC-Chapel Hill and MBA from West Texas A and M University.