Dumping domestic and international health care waste into the earth’s terra firma and oceans undermine global health equity and the health of vulnerable communities.

Dr Shawn G. Gibbs joins Ethics Talk to discuss industrial hygiene, biocontainment, and how to build more sustainable health systems. 

Dr Susan Veldheer joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Daniel R. George: "Strategies to Help Health Care Organizations Execute Their Food System Leadership Responsibilities.”

Restructuring health care waste management involves making existing waste audit data transparent.

Government- and industry-funded campaigns for medication disposal do work, but responsibility often falls on local health care organizations to provide education and services.

This drawing considers roles of health care waste in environmental stewardship and individuals’ and communities’ health outcomes.

Ariel Levchenko joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Scott Schweikart: “How Should Regulations Help Health Care Organizations Manage Waste?”

Communities are not affected equally by the volume and location of US health care waste.

The volume of hazardous health care waste is a global problem and its disposal can be environmentally damaging.

Since health organizations offer food, they are situated at key intersections of agricultural policies and practices and public health.