A Transformational Three-Part Book Series on Sustainability in Global Healthcare Delivery

A Roadmap for Global Healthcare Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era.

• Volume 1: Healthcare Stewardship: A 21st Century Global Call to Action

• Volume 2: Nature-base Solutions for Healthcare: Addressing Anthropocene Climate Change

• Volume 3: Conservation Medicine: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Maintaining Biodiversity

In an era defined by escalating planetary health crises, fragile and often overwhelmed healthcare infrastructures, and deepening health inequities across and within nations, the need for sustainable transformation in how we deliver healthcare services worldwide has reached a critical tipping point. Anthropogenic climate change, biodiversity loss, emerging infectious diseases, aging populations, and socioeconomic instability are no longer isolated challenges—they are interconnected driving forces straining global healthcare delivery systems at every level.

Today, I’m proud to announce the launch of a groundbreaking three-part book series that directly responds to this global call for change. This series presents a comprehensive and integrated framework for reimagining healthcare—one that breaks down traditional silos and unites the disciplines of human medicine, veterinary science, public health, environmental science, health humanities, economics, and health policy.

Designed for practitioners, policymakers, scholars, students and changemakers alike, this series explores bold, actionable strategies for building resilient, equitable, and ecologically sustainable global healthcare delivery systems. From local innovations to national reforms and global governance models, each volume offers a deeply interdisciplinary perspective on how we can steward the health of people, animals, and the planet—together.

This work is both a call to action and a blueprint for the future. I look forward to sharing this journey with all those committed to creating a healthier, more just, and sustainable world.

Why this 3 Book Series, A Roadmap for Global Healthcare Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era, is so Important?

1. Climate Change Directly Affects Health

• Climate change is not only an environmental crisis but a health emergency. Rising temperatures increase the prevalence of vector-borne diseases (like malaria and dengue), and extreme weather events (floods, hurricanes, droughts) displace populations, disrupt essential health services, and cause trauma and injury. Air pollution contributes to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, while food and water insecurity lead to malnutrition and infectious outbreaks.

• Why this book series matters: This book series contextualizes how health systems must adapt and respond—offering case studies from countries facing climate-induced public health challenges. It also addresses frameworks like Climate-Resilient Health Systems (WHO) and the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change.

• Rising temperatures, extreme weather, air pollution, and vector-borne diseases all impact human health. Sustainable healthcare systems must be resilient to these challenges while reducing their own environmental footprint.

2. Healthcare Itself Is Resource-Intensive

• Globally, the healthcare sector is responsible for nearly 5% of total carbon emissions—comparable to the aviation industry. It also consumes significant water, energy, pharmaceuticals, and generates substantial waste. Hospitals use single-use plastics, rely on energy-intensive technologies, and often lack green infrastructure.

• Why this book series matters: This issue is often overlooked in clinical education and policymaking. This book series explores green hospital design, circular supply chains, sustainable procurement, and low-carbon clinical practices (e.g., anesthetics, digital health). The goal is to decarbonize healthcare without compromising patient safety.

• Almost all global healthcare delivery systems are major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and waste. A sustainable approach seeks to minimize harm to the planet while maximizing health outcomes.

3. Global Health Equity Depends on Sustainability

• Sustainability and equity are intertwined. Resource-intensive, high-cost healthcare models aren’t scalable or replicable in low-resource settings. Sustainable health systems prioritize proactive integrated systems of health, community-oriented person-centered primary health care and advanced medical and information technology with interoperability transforming and ensuring long-term viability and equity.

• Why this book series matters: This book series highlights successful, integrated systems of health and healthcare delivery, grounded in the WHO building blocks and guided by a clinical framework of person-centered, community-oriented primary health care. It critically examines the colonial legacy embedded in global health practices and underscores the urgency of locally led, contextually tailored solutions for building effective and equitable healthcare systems worldwide.

• Unsustainable model of care delivery often prioritizes short-term gains in high-income countries while under-resourcing low- and middle-income nations. Sustainability means equitable access, appropriate technology, and long-term capacity building.

4. Integration Across Sectors Is Vital

• Healthcare service delivery does not exist in a silo. Sustainability in healthcare requires action across transportation, energy, agriculture, urban planning, and education. For example, clean cookstoves reduce respiratory disease and deforestation, active transportation (walking, biking) improves health and cuts emissions, and climate-smart regenerative agriculture improves nutrition and resilience.

• Why this book series matters: It explores how intersectoral governance and clinical frameworks such as One Health, EcoHealth, and Planetary Health drive sustainable, positive health outcomes. By aligning with global priorities like the WHO’s Universal Health Coverage (UHC), the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the USA’s Quintuple Aim, the series demonstrates how integrated, interdisciplinary approaches can transform healthcare systems for the benefit of people, communities, and the planet.

• Sustainable healthcare connects health and well-being to clean water, energy, transportation, food systems, and education. This book series illuminates these cross-sectoral synergies and promotes high-quality, integrated solutions.

5. There’s a Gap in the Literature

• Although journal articles and white papers exist, there is no unified, comprehensive, or multidisciplinary body of work specifically guiding sustainable healthcare delivery globally. Many clinicians and leaders lack structured guidance on how to operationalize sustainability.

• Why this book series matters: This book series builds foundational and advanced knowledge, serves as curricula for medical, public health, and health humanities education, provides actionable blueprints for global healthcare delivery systems and NGOs, and includes practical toolkits, real-world implementation case studies, and outcome-driven metrics

• A curated series builds a shared knowledge base, highlights best practices and innovations, and guides healthy public policy and implementation frameworks

 6. It Empowers Health Professionals

• Health professionals worldwide are trusted messengers of truthful and transparent information and knowledge. In addition, they are increasingly recognized for their role in climate advocacy and sustainable healthcare service delivery and practice. Yet many lack training in Environmental Health, Planetary Health, or climate-smart healthcare service delivery.

• Why this book series matters: By providing healthcare professionals with evidence-based clinical practices and essential non-clinical knowledge, this series empowers greener clinical decision-making (e.g., selecting low-impact procedures), strengthens policy leadership and governance across all levels of health organizations, and supports the work of hospital sustainability teams and green committees. It also promotes interprofessional education and meaningful community engagement. Central to this effort is a commitment to competency-based training and behavior change as catalysts for sustainable transformation.

• Clinicians, scholars, students, administrators, and policymakers need practical models and frameworks to make global healthcare delivery systems more sustainable. This book series offers a platform for learning, leadership, and advocacy.

7. Aligns with Global Agendas

• Sustainability in healthcare service delivery is central to achieving global health-related outcomes including SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being, SDG 13: Climate Action, Universal Health Coverage (UHC), WHO’s Healthier Populations Framework, and the Paris Agreement and global climate pledges among many others at all levels of organization.

• Why this book series matters: By mapping how sustainable global healthcare service delivery advances these agendas, the series can influence international and national healthy public policies, global donor priorities (e.g., GAVI, Global Fund, WHO, World Bank), monitoring and evaluation frameworks, and cross-border collaborations for planetary health.

• The book series provides information and knowledge that supports international priorities and aligns with global health agendas to advance sustainable, equitable healthcare delivery systems.

📚 The Series: A Roadmap for Global Healthcare Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era

Volume 1: Healthcare Stewardship: A 21st Century Global Call to Action
This foundational volume reimagines global healthcare delivery systems as stewards of all living things and planetary well-being. Grounded in the ethical principle of primum non nocere—first, do no harm—this book lays out a compelling case for embedding sustainability, equity, and resilience into the DNA of global healthcare governance and service delivery. It’s a wake-up call and a blueprint for leaders, clinicians, scholars, students and changemakers to collectively reengineer global healthcare service delivery for the 21st century.

Volume 2: Nature-based Solutions for Healthcare: Addressing Anthropocene Climate Change
The second installment explores how nature-based solutions can simultaneously improve health outcomes and restore ecosystem balance. From green hospital design and climate-resilient healthcare infrastructure to urban forests and biophilic models of health, this book highlights scalable, evidence-informed strategies that align human health with environmental regeneration in the era of anthropogenic climate change.

Volume 3: Conservation Medicine: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Maintaining Biodiversity
The final volume invites readers into the rapidly evolving field of conservation medicine—where human medicine, veterinary science, public health, environmental science, health humanities, health economics and public policy intersect. By recognizing the critical interdependence between biodiversity conservation and human health and well-being, this book offers a roadmap for proactive health and well-being (i.e., health prevention, health protection, health promotion, emergency preparedness, resilience and response, population health management and disease surveillance) strategies that mitigate zoonotic risks, preserve ecosystems, and strengthen global health security focusing at both the individual and community-level of care.

🌍 A Unified Vision for Sustainable Health Futures

Together, these three volumes offer a visionary yet practical roadmap for reimagining healthcare service delivery on a global scale—one grounded in stewardship, sustainability, equity, and ecological integrity. At the heart of this integrated framework is a commitment to centering community voices, preserving biodiversity, upholding ethical responsibility, and building climate-resilient healthcare systems worldwide that can mitigate and adapt in the face of future challenges.

While each book stands independently—exploring distinct dimensions of healthcare stewardship, sustainability, and transformation—they are also deeply interconnected. Read collectively, the series traces a compelling narrative arc: from an ethical awakening to the interconnectedness of all life, through the integration of ecosystem-based thinking, to the mobilization of cross-sector collaboration and policy innovation. This arc reflects the urgent need not only to heal individuals, but to restore the health of communities and the natural systems upon which we all depend.

Created for those at the forefront of shaping the future of global healthcare systems through both the arts and the sciences—clinicians, public health professionals, scholars, educators, students, policymakers, and environmental advocates—this series provides more than just a theoretical lens. It delivers a multidisciplinary blueprint for designing healthcare delivery systems that are resilient in the face of crisis, sustainable across generations, and just in their reach and outcomes.

In a time when the health of people, animals, and ecosystems are more interdependent than ever, this series is both a timely intervention and a long-term guide for those working to build a healthier, more equitable, and sustainable world.