Standardizing Carbon Footprint Calculations of Clinical Care Delivery

To help shepherd and grow early-stage innovations toward climate-smart healthcare, it is crucial to develop a standardized approach to measuring the carbon footprint of clinical operations. The team will study how to integrate carbon accounting into care delivery operations and decision making, by forming a research and development group named CHIL, Climate Health Informatics Lab.

The team will develop standards for measuring the carbon footprint of healthcare. This project contributes to Stanford Health Care’s carbon footprint reduction goals.

Ron Li, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine

Oluseyi Fayanju, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine

Rachel Outterson, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology

Cassandra Thiel, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Department of Population Health, NYU


Stefano Leitner, MD, MPH
Clinical Informatics Fellow, UCSF

Co-author of “Climate change and health informatics: pilot survey of perspectives across the field” featured in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Volume 29, Issue 12, December 2022

“Designing Planetary Health with Chethan Sarabu” on the Design Lab podcast with Bob Ku

Invited to speak on Climate Climate and Health Informatics at the Climate Health Alliance in Boston

Invited to present at Epic Systems (EHR Company) about climate change and health informatics