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Dr Cassandra Thiel: Challenges and Initiatives in Achieving Sustainable Healthcare

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Published Online: Dec 13th 2021

Dr Cassandra Thiel (NYU Langone Health, New York City, NY, USA) highlights the significant impact healthcare systems have on global warming and climate change, and the challenges to achieving more sustainable healthcare.

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1. How significant is the impact of the healthcare sector on global climate change? 00:17-01:24
2. What are the main challenges in achieving more sustainable healthcare? 01:24-02:51

Speaker Disclosure: Cassandra Thiel has no financial or non-financial conflicts of interest to declare in relation to this video.

Support: Interview and filming supported by Touch Medical Media Ltd. Interview conducted by Sophie Nickelson.

Filmed in coverage of the COP26 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference

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