About Us

The Melbourne Medical School is home to world leaders in environmentally sustainable healthcare. We create high-quality, low carbon healthcare practice and policy change through research, teaching and engagement. Our focus areas include addressing low value care through quality improvement, implementation of practice changes, and healthcare carbon footprinting (life cycle assessment).

Sustainability, Climate and Health Strategy 2025 - 2030

The Melbourne Medical School's Sustainable Healthcare Strategy

Our Team

The University of Melbourne Medical School’s Sustainable Healthcare Team is made up of senior clinicians, academics and researchers with extensive experience in sustainable healthcare, transformational change and policy influence.

Our team of experts works to transform healthcare through promoting prevention, evidence-based efficiencies, sustainable models of care and circular economies by co-designing and implementing real world solutions with healthcare policy makers, researchers, practitioners, organisations and industry.

We lead the Sustainable Healthcare stream of the University’s Climate CATCH (Collaborative Action for Transformative Change in Health and Healthcare) Lab.

Sustainable Healthcare: Impact Report 2024/25

Read our Impact Report