The Sustainable Healthcare Podcast

In this podcast, Joachim Almdal from Green Innovation Group and Jannik Jensen, Global Product Manager at Medclair, explore ways to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions while using nitrous oxide and anesthetics in medical procedures. Nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas, and its use in medical facilities contributes to global warming. Jannik og Joachim discuss various methods to reduce the amo...

Join Joachim Almdal from Green Innovation Group as he talks with Skage Hem, Geologist at Alumichem, about the complexity of cement production and its role in global CO2 emissions. Learn how to reduce emissions from cement production, what clients in the healthcare industry should do to reduce emissions, and how a system change and mindset shift are needed to address financing for CO2 emissions. Ge...

How is pharma tackling its climate change impact? Pharmaceuticals are estimated to contribute to up to 55% of health care’s carbon footprint. As pressure increases for health systems to move towards net zero, we explore how pharmaceutical companies are playing their part to reduce their climate impact. Recently published research, led by Dr Amy Booth (medical doctor, PhD candidate at the Universit...

Join Frederik van Deurs, CEO of Green Innovation Group, and Simon the Producer of the Sustainable Healthcare Podcast. They discuss sustainability projects and how to build a convincing business case for clients. They also talk about Green Innovation Group's work with clients on procurement decisions and LCA analysis, as well as why taking time for yourself is important in order to have a great day...

Frederik van Deurs and Anne Harsmann discuss how sales reps in the healthcare sector can bridge data into understandable messages for customers, differentiate their company from competitors, and leverage sustainability departments to create a business strategy. They also discuss how tenders must include sustainability elements and how sales reps can help fulfill this requirement. Listen to this po...

Join Frederik van Deurs, CEO of Green Innovation Group, and Anne Harsmann, commercial professional with managerial roles in MedTech companies and an expert on sustainability, as they discuss the complexities of doing business in the medical field. They explore how patient preference is becoming increasingly important and how companies can best communicate with patients about hygiene and sustainabi...

If Karen Blincoe means something to you, you’re going to love this episode. If not, then you need to read up on your stuff - she is one of the most experienced we have in our field and now she is out with her book: Achieving Sustainability: The Ultimate Human Challenge. In this episode, we’re diving deep with Karen on all things sustainability and her own personal journey into sustainability. Enjo...

MedTech professional Michelle Sullivan is this week’s guest. She is a seasoned MedTech professional that has been working with health economics, market access, and most importantly sustainability in medical technology. She takes us through her journey and how sustainability has become very important and the general sustainability landscape is looking in MedTech. Enjoy!

The Sustainability Marathoner is back. Decarbonizing Healthcare is all we do here at Green Innovation Group. You probably listen to this podcast, because you care about that too. And this episode is somewhat of a special. We're welcoming our new team member and previous podcast guest, Kristoffer Hvidsteen, who is joining the Green Innovation Group team. This podcast is about his journey in sustain...

How do you keep the medicines at the right temperature levels throughout the supply chain? It’s an important question and the answers are even more important. On this week’s episode, we are guested by a person, who has these answers: Jeroen van Loo, who’s heading Cold Chain Monitoring for Elpro Global. In this episode, Joachim and Jeroen talk a lot about that, but also about the circular programs...

Ayla Kiser is back and so is the topic of biomimicry. In this episode of the podcast, Lasse is back with Ayla, and this time we're diving deeper into the examples of how to actually apply biomimicry in healthcare, sustainability and the world at large. Enjoy the episode! ps. We want to take a second and say thanks to everyone who's listening to the podcast! If you have topics you would like that w...

Maria Gaden is back in the studio this week with another episode about sustainability within hospitals and healthcare systems. In this episode we’re touching on many different topics, including how scope 3 emissions affect the healthcare systems, but most important is the talk we had about why western healthcare systems must prioritize sustainability and why it’s incredibly important that they get...

Have you ever found yourself wondering how you would actually make a sustainability impact in large healthcare systems? Well, we have the answer for you. In this episode, Joachim has Maria Gaden, Head of the Center for Sustainable Hospitals - a regular sustainability superstar - in the studio for a conversation on all things sustainability within hospitals and healthcare systems. In the conversati...

"Biomimicry is not chopping off elephant trunks and using that. It’s not directly using something from nature, but it’s taking the blueprint of that design using whatever materials make sense for the application." This is how this week’s guest, Ayla, explains biomimicry. In this episode - aside from Lasse making his hosting debut - we’re talking to Ayla about what biomimicry is and we discover the...

In this week's episode, Nina & Susanne are back to talk about greening dentistry. Today the topics relate to the green dentistry movement Susanne and Nina are spearheading and this time also around how it looks through a social sustainability lens. We discuss the largest culprits when it comes to sustainability and dentistry - here Nina comes with a very tactical and operational list of stuff...

Hear the story about how the Sustainable Dentistry working group came to be and what work the zealots of the group are working to make dentistry greener in Denmark. In the studio today we have Nina and Susanne, a sustainable design engineer and a dentist, who are working on exactly this. Among other things, they are talking about how and if systematic oral care has an impact on infections after su...

Sustainability is a marathon, not a sprint. And how do you complete a marathon? You break it up into smaller targets. In the same fashion, you set targets for your sustainability that you can reach and then on to the next. This episode is about quantifying sustainability in a way that helps you measure and benchmark the results so we can make sure we have sustainable development. Enjoy this episod...

Several of the largest pharma companies in the world has made a coalition and founded the Sustainable Markets Initiative that has the goal of greenifying the supply chains and by that fundamentally changing the way carbon is emitted - or more precisely - not emitted. Enjoy this episode with Frederik & Joachim of Green Innovation Group

Running workshops is a crucial part of improving sustainability in all companies. At Green Innovation Group we've had lots of opportunities to do so and in today's episode we've collected 5 actionable and easy-to-implement tips that you can use to improve the next workshop you are in charge of. Enjoy!

On this week's episode of the Sustainable Healthcare Podcast, we have Andreas & Pia from Roche Diagnostics in the studio for a talk about digital health and how to build sustainability into these product. Enjoy!

1/5 of global emissions comes from transportation making it that much more important to transition as much as possible to renewable energy sources such as electrically powered vehicles. On today's episode, Frederik is back with Isabel from HERE Technologies talking about transitioning and what types of challenges healthcare companies might face when making this transition. Enjoy this episode! ---...

On this episode of the Sustainable Healthcare Podcast, Joachim is giving you a 2023 checklist, to make sure that your best equipped to follow your sustainability strategy and actually hit your targets. Enjoy this episode! --

The war for talent is on, and it has also hit the MedTech sector, and that is why today, we're guested by Mike Moore, who has many years of experience on how to recruit the best talent in the startup world. In this episode, he shares his best advice on how to build teams, how to attract the right people, and why a true and sincere mission is instrumental if you wish to attract the top 5%'ers - the...

How to create a strategy and execution model, making a factory go circular in their production? In this special episode, Joachim & Frederik take a deep dive on a recent project they’ve worked on with a healthcare company helping them make their production more circular, how to make the analysis a strategy, and how to make the strategy to implementable & executable model. Enjoy! --- The Sus...

Too many sustainability efforts don’t get the prioritization they deserve and should have inside of orgs. Many times, it’s because the efforts were rooted in marketing or PR, which in nature gives it a ROI perspective, but when it becomes rooted in the core business that changes. In order to succeed ask these three questions: Is it important and how do I know it’s important? Is it a good business...