Planetary Health Report Card

We are now accepting applications to join our team as a 2024-2025 School Lead! More information: https://lnkd.in/gjeG8Sbk 1-minute application: https://lnkd.in/gUsDwmC6

Are you interested in learning more about our work at the Planetary Health Report Card and that of our collaborators, and how you can become involved at your home institution? We have a special event just for you! Join us and students from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine on Zoom (facilitated by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine) as we explore our experiences with integrating planetary health education into health curricula. This is an event not to miss! Invite all your colleagues and register using the QR code or link below. https://lnkd.in/gdnMpE3P

The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change has published a new policy report on: A just energy transition for the good of health. We are proud the Planetary Health Report Card has contributed to this important report and we are excited to continue working with the UKHACC to promote planetary health. The report says the UK is on the cusp of a transformational change to release ourselves from the current dependency on fossil fuels - coal, oil, and gas - to one powered by natural energy - wind, wave, and solar. The next five years are critical in phasing out fossil fuels while accelerating progress on renewable energy, building the infrastructure to support fossil-free homes and environments, upskilling the workforce, and demonstrating leadership on a global scale. It lays out six recommendations for the government to achieve this: 1. End UK dependency on oil and gas 2. Revise and strengthen the 2050 net zero strategy 3. Invest in people to meet the demand for green jobs 4. Improve infrastructure and access for active travel and clean transport 5. Enable a low-carbon, climate-resilient health service 6. Demonstrate leadership by delivering domestically and meeting international obligations More information and links 👇

Our goals! We're preparing for our next cycle of the #Phreportcard and it's time to review our goals. We want the report card to be more interdisciplinary-focused. Can you think how we might make these goals align with that vision?

The General Medical Council (GMC) recently published a mission statement outlining the importance of planetary health in undergraduate medical education. The first medical education regulator to do so, a huge win for our UK and international PHRC School teams and for others advocating for this work. This statement is the first outcome of our two year partnership with the GMC. The UK PHRC team have been working with their Education Policy Team since March 2022 to provide insight into the student perspective and steer them on how medical education needs to adapt for the future. Our sights are still set on Outcomes for Graduates and with our biggest ever publication of PHRC report cards in April, we are more confident than ever in the power of student advocacy. For more context of our work, including our open letter and workshop, please see our blog post here: https://lnkd.in/egXY36AT Please read the full mission statement and share with your colleagues in medical education here: https://lnkd.in/eqNXwK6f

We are recruiting! It is an exciting time for the PHRC with our new Co-directors in position and our imminent 501c non-profit status on the way. We are looking for students and early-career healthcare professionals to join our leadership team and become part of the largest student planetary health advocacy group. You'll get to be part of the growing Planetary Health Report Card international community and play a vital role in driving the development of planetary health education. If you are passionate about planetary health and have the time to dedicate to the project, we'd love to hear from you. Our list of available roles can be found here: https://lnkd.in/enVcQszg The link to the application form is here: https://lnkd.in/e6w3eRvA Please share this with students that you think might be interested.

Students, faculty interested persons, Please join us for our first Community Feedback Meeting. You’ll get the chance to meet the new Co-directors, input into our 2 year plan and feedback on your current involvement. Agenda: 🌱 Meet the new Co-Directors: James Lee, Arya Pontula, Emily Coady 🌱 Our goals for 2024/25 🌱 Breakout room for feedback and questions July 21st 13:00 GMT / 14:00 BST / 06:00 PDT / 23:00 AEST Please register using this Google form: https://lnkd.in/eVacYhuD We will look forward to meeting you all soon! You may have seen this post before but we have decided to reconsider our use of the term 'stakeholders' as it has negative connotations linked to colonialism— just one example of how our community is helping us to grow. You can read more about it here: https://lnkd.in/efW3eQXi

PHRC results day! 🌱🌎 Today student teams at 151 health professional schools publish their PHRC reports outlining the best (and worst) practices in planetary health education. Read more to discover the most comprehensive assessment of planetary health teaching in healthcare. 2024 is our biggest year ever with over 1000 students at 151 schools in 18 countries taking part across medicine, pharmacy, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and dentistry. We’ve put together some highlights below and you can read the full summary report at phreportcard.org! This years top performing medical schools were: #1 Keele Medical School, UK #2 University of Emory, US #3  University College London, UK. This year's biggest improver was Chicago Medical School, US  improving their score by 24.7%. Taking #1 for Nursing, University of Minnesota, US. #1 Pharmacy, University of Montana, US. #1 Dentistry, Kings College London, UK. 1# Physiotherapy, Stellenbosch University. #1 Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, US.  Congratulations to University of East Anglia for completing the first pilot in Occupational therapy, and the veterinary and dentistry school teams for completing the first report cards too. Laying the foundation for these disciplines in our next cycle! The aim of the PHRC is to inspire internal collaboration and drive the development of planetary health education. We are delighted to share that 78% of schools with a previous report card improved their scores! Evidence of a changing planetary health education landscape. Each report card is a huge amount of work so please help us in thanking every student, faculty, and member of the PHRC leadership team that made this work possible! You can thank them by 1) sharing this tweet, 2) reading our summary report 3) spreading the word. Don’t you see your school, country or discipline on the leaderboards? Get in touch and we’d love to discuss starting the PHRC at your institution. Contact us on twitter or through our website phreportcard.org. We’ve so many people and institutions to thank for supporting us throughout the year, we’ve tried to tag them below, but a special thanks to the Macy foundation for financially supporting us this year and our wonderful co-directors Isabel Waters and Taylor Diedrich for getting us through it! Collaborators / Partners / Similar organisations: @GCCHE_ @UKHealthClimate @Irishdocsenv @MS4SF @emsa_europe @CFMSFEMC @helmsic @ClimateHealthEd@HCWHGlobal @HCWithoutHarm @HCWHeurope @SusHealthcare @GreenerPractice @ph_alliance @UCClimateHealth @pracgreenhealth @SfGH_UK @ukmedschools @bmj_latest @TheLancetPlanet @DoctorsXr @Medact @Revolution-ZERO1, @RNClimateChal, @healthforfuture @mclean294, @Esh_southafrica

Hey everyone, Madeline here from the PHRC - reminding you about the symposium happening on April 14th on the theme of climate justice! Please share amongst your circles, we are hoping for a good turnout! #planetaryhealth Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/enUvVvTk!

You can now find curriculum metrics for all 6 PHRC disciplines on our website! As the initiative has grows and new disciplines join the PHRC, we work with faculty and students to tailor a curriculum section that fits that discipline. Don't see your discipline on there? Get in touch. https://lnkd.in/eU6-H2v7