Our summary and deep dive into how heath care organizations can utilize IRA incentives to advance climate- and equity-related work By Antonia Herzog, Ph.D., Health Care Without Harm Director of Climate Policy and Advocacy Elective pay Investment tax credits Bonus credits The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the U.S. government’s…

By Patrick Osewe, Director of Health, Human and Social Development Division, Asian Development Bank, and Josh Karliner, Director of Global Partnerships for Health Care Without Harm. The Group of Twenty (G20) health ministers, under the leadership of India’s G20 Presidency and with support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), broke…

Last month, more than 700 health care professionals from across the United States gathered at Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth’s annual CleanMed conference in Pittsburgh. One of the conference highlights was a session moderated by Health Care Without Harm senior advisor Kathy Gerwig, where leaders from the federal…

Chef Joseph Moreno shares how he drew from his past and present to win the Health Care Culinary Contest It’s October 2022, and the competition is heating up at Stanford Health Care. The hospital’s chefs are vying for the chance to submit their recipes on behalf of the hospital to…

Chefs share their recipes & stories behind them before winner is announced at CleanMed Every year, Health Care Without Harm partners with the Culinary Institute of America’s Menus of Change program and Johnson & Wales University to host the Health Care Culinary Contest. …

Hospital project gives “Beantown” a new meaning In the fall of 2022, Brigham and Women’s Hospital introduced a brand new product to its patrons — a falafel made from local yellow peas. This culinary invention was the result of a partnership between hospitals, farmers, processors, Health Care Without Harm, and…

By Ted Schettler, M.D., MPH, Health Care Without Harm science adviser Dizziness, drowsiness, fatigue, headaches — a common list of symptoms that could have many causes. Among them is low-level exposure to vinyl chloride, a chemical used to make products we use every day. Not likely a worry on the…

Gary Cohen, founder of Health Care Without Harm, on healing & humanity through health care — Get inspired by our founder Gary Cohen’s recent TEDx Talk as he shares how Health Care Without Harm and its partners are building a global movement within the health care sector to take on the greatest challenges of our time. “We no longer have the luxury of time to…

“We decided not to feed the [climate] crisis anymore” — New York Mayor Eric Adams “We decided not to feed the [climate] crisis anymore,” declared New York Mayor Eric Adams to an applauding audience. The analogy of feeding climate change hit home with the crowd, as they had all committed…