University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine was the first school in the country to appoint an associate dean for sustainability.
Health sector is responsible for 8 to 10% of carbon pollution in the United States and a quarter of all global health care carbon pollution, Mallon said.
Mallon: Health care organizations, in general, and academic health systems in particular, with missions of protecting and promoting health, are major climate polluters.
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Senay Ataselim-Yilmaz, Chief Operating Officer, Turkish Philanthropy Funds, writes that philanthropy often solves the very problems that stems from market failure. Some social issues, however, Â cannot be tackled by questioning the return on investment.