Clinician-Led Resource Conservation: Strategies to Cut Costs and Carbon Emissions
Frontline clinicians are uniquely positioned to lead sustainability efforts that save money and reduce emissions. During this webinar, participants will gain insights and a framework for creating data driven initiatives in the clinical space that reduce waste, carbon emissions, and costs. In a presented case study, participants will learn about a nurse-led initiative that used a hospital's shared governance model to prevent supply waste across the organization, driving measurable resource and cost savings.
Speaker Bios:
Alejandra Muñoz is a Senior Consultant with Kimball Sustainable Healthcare. She is a civil engineer with a master’s degree in sustainability. As a senior consultant, she supports
clients by leading data collection and analysis for greenhouse gas inventories and Practice Greenhealth Award applications. Alejandra partners with clinicians to implement strategies that
reduce hospital waste and develops business and environmental impact analyses to provide data-driven recommendations that advance both sustainability and operational goals.
Ann Mead holds a MPH, BSN, RN with 17 years combined experience in nursing roles ranging from tertiary to primary care across the lifespan, and in public health program design, management and evaluation at the community and institutional levels. Ann has worked to organize colleagues around sustainability initiatives in various Washington D.C.-based institutions, where she has served on hospital Environmental Sustainability Committees, founded institutional and unit-based Green Teams and recently founded a Nurse-led Sustainability Sub-Council to harness the power of nurses to prioritize and tackle sustainability initiatives. Ann has joined the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments for advocacy actions including testifying before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to urge tighter regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas industry. Her publications include a guest blog post for the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control’s 2022 World No Tobacco Day themed Poisoning Our Planet, two Spanish language articles on climate change in the D.C.-based Revista Ágrafos (2020, 2021), an article on Identifying Nurses’ Power to Confront Climate Change, published in the Children’s National Pediatric Nursing Journal (Winter 2025) edition. She currently works as a R.N. in Children’s National hospital in Washington, D.C.
