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Global Health and Safety Initiative
Improving patient, workplace, and environmental safety in healthcare
GHSI mission and goals described at recent kick-off event  more videos

The Global Health and Safety Initiative (GHSI) is a sector-wide collaboration to transform the way that healthcare designs, builds and operates its facilities, as well as the products used within those facilities.

GHSI aims to build a learning community and to leverage the expertise of its partners to support evidence-based improvements that advance patient and worker safety and environmental sustainability. While GHSI recognizes that excellent work has been done in the last decade to improve patient and worker safety, it also recognizes that much work still needs to be done to link these safety issues to environmental health and sustainability.

The GHSI effort marries safety and sustainability, and puts healthcare leaders at the center of a global movement to support healthy people in healthy communities on a healthy planet. Collectively, we can make a difference.

We invite you to read more about GHSI, as well as our Founding Organizations, Supporting Organizations, and the Workgroups, whose ongoing collaborations are the bedrock of our efforts.

Please join us by signing onto the GHSI Initiative Declaration. You can also contact Health Care Without Harm at 703-243-0056, or GHSI Program Coordinator Pamela Miller at 510-559-8777 or by email.

What's New

May 18, 2008, GHSI Press Release

CleanMed Panel Focuses on GHSI

The final plenary session at the annual CleanMed conference in Pittsburgh on May 22 is entitled, "Future of Sustainability in Health Care: The Global Health and Safety Initiative." GHSI leaders will discuss how the creation of GHSI will address the issues raised earlier at the CleanMed conference.  more


May 17, 2008, GHSI Press Release

GHSI Launches Website and Wiki

The Global Health and Safety Initiative (GHSI), a collaboration to promote safety and sustainability among some of the leading organizations in the domestic health care sector, launched its new website and wiki today.  more


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