Partnerships and Members

• Partnerships Around the World
• CleanMed
• Members

Partnerships Around the World

HCWH is working in partnership with governments, non-governmental organizations and mainstream health care institutions.

In the United States, HCWH created Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E) with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the American Hospital Association and the American Nurses Association. This program is now Practice Greenhealth, the leading membership and networking organization for health care institutions in the U.S. that have made a commitment to sustainable, eco-friendly practices.

HCWH is also a founding member of the Global Health and Safety Initiative, a collaboration of leading health care systems in the U.S. that are working to transform the way the health care sector designs, builds and operates its facilities.

Our partnerships have also created the capacity to transform health care practices on a global scale. HCWH and the World Health Organization are co-leading a global initiative to virtually eliminate mercury-based medical devices around the world by 2017. HCWH and WHO are also collaborating to address the health impacts of climate change and the climate impacts of the health sector.

HCWH is also working in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme and the World Health Organization to implement a Global Environment Facility project to demonstrate sustainable health care waste management in Argentina, Latvia, Lebanon, India, the Philippines, Senegal, Vietnam and Tanzania.

In Europe our campaign is increasingly successful and dynamic. We are working with doctors, nurses, governments and hospitals to promote environmentally sound health care in dozens of countries, while advocating for European Union-wide safer chemical policies and climate-friendly health care. For instance, we worked in collaboration with several organizations to achieve an EU-wide ban on mercury thermometers in 2007.

CleanMed

Health Care Without Harm has also created CleanMed, the premier conference on environmentally preferable medical products and green building. CleanMed attracts leaders from across the health care supply chain — top health care executives, nursing leaders, health care architects and designers, product manufacturers and the leading Group Purchasing Organizations.

Members

Membership in HCWH is based upon an organizational commitment to the mission and goals of the campaign, and a desire to participate fully in helping to achieve them. View the complete list of 480 member organizations.

Groups that join the campaign do not contribute dues. HCWH does not accept financial support from manufacturers or endorse specific products. Find out more about getting involved.