1. UK Sustainable Development Registrar Network
Darryl Quantz – May 2017

2. Sustainability and Public Health Practice
As a public health practitioner, you are well placed to bring about change through engaging stakeholders positively in a system-wide journey that exploits the robust evidence on the health co-benefits of making sustainable development a crucial principle of public health action in the 21st century.’ (Oxford Handbook of Public Health)

3. UK PHR SD Network Vision
Develop our own public health practice in a manner which recognises and promotes sustainability in all aspects of our work.
Advocate and promote sustainable development in our work settings and with our partners.
As a network, we want to empower and support our members through professional development opportunities, sharing of information and development of working links with existing partners in the field of sustainable development.

4. Faculty of Public Health
Integration into new curriculum:
“The FPH believes that sustainability and carbon reduction are fundamental to all core competency areas of the curriculum statement..”
5.7 Demonstrate leadership in environmental sustainability with a focus on the links to health and climate change.
FPH SD Special Interest Group

6. Opportunities: Sustainable Development in Placements
Joint PHE/NHSE Strategy
PHE SDMP
Regional Sustainability and Health Networks
Health Education England
Trusts and CCGs

7. Examples Sustainability & Health Regional Networks
National Treasure/Special Placements (e.g., Wales, PHE, SDU, FPH SIG)
Sustainable Food Project
JSNA - Air Quality
Registrar Sustainability Network
2 months of registrar travel = burning over 2 tonnes of coal.
2/3 of miles travelled by car
But over 2,000 miles travel avoided in one month through working from home, teleconferencing
Promoting healthy and sustainable food
Tackling food poverty
food knowledge, skills, resources
vibrant and diverse sustainable food economy
catering and food procurement
Reducing food waste
Audit of
Registrar Travel
Sustainability Induction

8. Thank you ! Dawn.jenkin@phe.gov.uk Darryl.quantz@phe.gov.uk
Don’t get left behind!
“Tackling climate change could be the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century” The Lancet
Thank you !