On 22nd April (Earth Day), the Planetary Health Report Card was published, detailing all of our efforts to drive forward sustainability this year. 139 medical schools across the globe took part and we are delighted to announce that Bristol Medical School scored not only 2nd in the UK, but 2nd in the world!
We have made enormous strides this year, soaring all the way from 13th in the country last year to a silver medal position. We also received a special kudos for our collaboration with the local organisation Facts4Life on a student choice project called “Healthy Planet, Healthy People”.
A lot has gone on behind the scenes to achieve this result, including the creation of our external website, internal SharePoint and this blog itself. We’ve also introduced Carbon Literacy training for the entire first-year cohort, shared weekly sustainability news in the bulletin and Galenicals newsletter, published our Year 1-3 sustainability lectures on the public platform MedAll, will soon be launching our new academy sustainability representatives initiative and much more.
Thank you so much to Lakshmi Aggarwal and Matthias Mitra (our two Medical School Sustainability Champions) for writing up such a detailed, 40-page report, to Professor Trevor Thompson, Professor Kate Tilling and Lucy Westover for being tireless proponents and supporters for this work, and Shandin Rickard-Hughes in the SU for leading the Sustainability Champion programme.
Check out the full Bristol Medical school report
Check out the full International Summary report