{"id":2462,"date":"2023-10-30T08:40:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T00:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/cosm\/?page_id=2462"},"modified":"2025-05-06T17:07:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T09:07:26","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/cosm\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/cosm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2023\/11\/microscope_leaf.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\r\n<h2>About Us<\/h2>\r\n<p>Sustainable medicine is an emerging multidisciplinary field of practice dedicated to <strong>improving the health of our patients<\/strong> in the face of climate change, and <strong>driving the transition to net zero healthcare.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<h1>Background<\/h1>\r\n<p>From extremes of heat and worsening asthma to the spread of infectious disease, climate change is directly threatening human health and disrupting healthcare access and delivery across the globe. Contributing more to carbon emissions than shipping and aviation combined, health systems are often exacerbating this threat, undermining their central mission to deliver care for our patients and the public.<\/p>\r\n<p>The health response to climate change is rapidly gaining pace in health systems on every continent. This inevitable transition needs new tools to guide clinical best-practice, rapid evidence generation to support timely policy decisions, and a new kind of healthcare leader to be at the forefront of the change.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2022 Hashtag at NUS Med\" src=\"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/cosm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2023\/11\/2022-Hashtag-at-NUS-Med.jpg\" alt=\"2022 Hashtag at NUS Med\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>The Centre for Sustainable Medicine&#8217;s <strong>three pathways<\/strong> to deliver change<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"pillars\"><div class=\"pillar-content-tabs\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"pillar-content-tab\" id=\"pillar-circle-1\" data-zindex=\"1\" data-target=\"pillar-2545\">\n\t\t\t\t<span>Preparing future healthcare leaders<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"pillar-content-tab\" id=\"pillar-circle-2\" data-zindex=\"2\" data-target=\"pillar-2544\">\n\t\t\t\t<span>Accelerating the delivery of 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class=\"pillar-content-card\">\n\t\t\t\t<h1>Accelerating the delivery of net zero healthcare<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Providing <strong>direct analytical and decision-support<\/strong> for health policymakers and health systems responding to climate change across Asia\r\n\r\n<p>Utilising our delivery and analytical expertise to <strong>broker trust and assurance<\/strong> between clinicians, Governments, and industry partners<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Growing the field of sustainable medicine<\/strong> with opportunities for clinicians at every stage in their journey to engage in interdisciplinary research and direct service improvement<\/p><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div id=\"pillar-2542\" class=\"pillar-content-card\">\n\t\t\t\t<h1>Equipping clinicians with the best-available evidence<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Developing a <strong>Singapore Healthcare System Accelerator<\/strong>, deploying implementation sciences to drive change and scale interventions we know work\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Mapping 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