Our Initiatives

Our Pledges 

UCLMS staff voted for their top five pledges to improve sustainability at UCL Medical School:

1. Only order environmentally-friendly stationery and supplies
2. Have a PC and lights shutdown every Friday
3. Reduce single-use items in Clinical Skills Centres and let students know
4. Reduce food waste by ordering less for events, donating or composting leftover catering
5. No longer buy single-use water bottles and signpost students to water fountains

Sustainability Education Award

UCLMS is proud to have won the Sustainability Education Award is a joint award for staff and/or students who have integrated a comprehensive sustainability education plan into the formal or informal curriculum.

• Adesh Sundaresan

Honorary Clinical Lecturer, UCL Medical School

Adesh designed and ran a novel module for medical students dedicated to empowering, educating and inspiring students on the health impacts of climate change.

UCL Medical School’s MBBS Climate Change and Sustainability Working Group brought together a team of students and staff who worked through the MBBS curriculum map, looking for opportunities to signpost and integrate issues linking healthcare, climate change, and sustainability teaching into the MBBS curriculum. UCLMS established the first medical Student Selected Component (SSC) in climate change and health in the UK and contributed to the Declaration of the Climate Change Emergency, which was a national initiative amongst UK medical schools.

• UCL  Planetary Health Report Card Team

Catherine Napper researched and reviewed the UCL Faculty of Medical Sciences’ commitment to climate change education and sustainability in the faculty’s curriculum, interdisciplinary research, community outreach, support for student-led initiatives, and campus sustainability, in addition to setting up a board to further improve the faculty’s engagement in the future as part of the Planetary Health Report Card (PHRC) Initiative.