Healthcare LCA Masterclass: understanding and constructing a life cycle assessment
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University of Melbourne’s Healthcare Carbon Lab is excited to invite you to an immersive, full-day Masterclass designed for professionals who want to elevate their understanding of healthcare sustainability through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). This full-day workshop will move you from broad contextual understandings into issues and underpinnings via the LCA process and publications. Participants can expect to gain knowledge of:
- Life cycle thinking
- Healthcare carbon literacy and its importance
- The purpose and comparisons of different healthcare carbon footprint analysis methodologies
- In depth understanding of national, state (analysis of publications) and organisational (presentation of results) level healthcare carbon footprints
- An understanding of the critical components of a LCA
- Practical implications of clinical LCA.
Workshop format
Full-day, interactive session led by experienced LCA practitioners with a focus on healthcare applications.
Case studies drawn from national and regional contexts to illustrate real-world relevance.
Guided exercises to reinforce concepts, data interpretation, and decision-making under uncertainty.
Resources provided, including templates, checklists, and recommended publications to support ongoing learning.
Who should attend
This masterclass is designed for all healthcare professionals, academics, researchers, managers and policy makers seeking a comprehensive understanding of healthcare carbon hotspots and life cycle assessment methodologies and interpretation. Participants will learn to critically analyse relevant studies and publications to assist in the evidence based impactful advances urgently needed to address healthcare's carbon footprint.Logistics and registration
When: Monday 29th June 2026
Time: 9:00am to 5:00pm
Where: South Room at the Woodward Conference Centre,
Address: Level 10, Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham St, Carlton 3053
Cost:
$600 Adult
$400 Concession for Students and UoM staff
Morning tea; lunch and afternoon tea are included. Please register any dietary restrictions at catherine.oshea@unimelb.edu.au
Why this Masterclass matters
Climate change impacts health and wellbeing, yet the Australian healthcare sector is estimated to be the source of over 7% of Australia’s total carbon emissions. As health services are starting to reduce their carbon emissions, it is important that decision makers and clinicians gain an understanding of how carbon footprints are determined from national to organisational to product level, as well as having the ability to critique the ever-increasing quantity of carbon footprints using life cycle assessment (LCA) being published in medical journals.