Implementation Science for Sustainable Health Systems

Measure environmental impact.

Translate evidence into sustainable healthcare practice.

3 half-days | November 3 - 5, 2026

8:00 am - 12:30 pm Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8)



12:30 - 1:00 pm Faculty Office Hours (optional)



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Healthcare delivery has an environmental footprint - from medical devices and pharmaceuticals to supply chains, energy use, waste, and digital services. Understanding that footprint is an important first step. The next is knowing how to turn environmental evidence into sustainable, scalable change.

This live, online, interactive workshop brings together Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Implementation Science (ImS) to help health professionals and researchers evaluate environmental impacts and implement climate-smart, resource-efficient health interventions.

Through lectures, case studies, hands-on exercises, and small-group work, participants will learn to:

• Apply foundational Life Cycle Assessment approaches to health technologies, services, and systems
• Use Implementation Science theories and frameworks to identify barriers and design implementation strategies
• Examine implementation outcomes such as feasibility, acceptability, cost, reach, and fidelity alongside environmental impacts
• Apply these methods to an ongoing project or health-system challenge
• Explore emerging applications, including AI for LCA and climate-and-health research

Rachel King, PhD, MPH - Course Director

Associate Professor, UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Institute for Global Health Sciences, California

Cassandra Thiel, PhD

Assistant Professor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Tandon School of Engineering, New York

Rosalind Parkes-Ratanshi, MBBS, MA, PhD, FRCP, FFPH

Professor of Global Health, Queen’s University Belfast; Senior Scientist, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Uganda

Petra Mariaria, MPhil

Climate & Health Systems Researcher, Infectious Diseases Institute, Uganda

Lissa Moran, MPH

Implementation Science Researcher, UCSF School of Medicine, California

Ozioma Oguejiofor, MPhil

Climate & Health Science Officer, Clean Air Fund, United Kingdom

Meghana Gadgil, MD, MPH, FACP, FHM

Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCSF; Adjunct Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, California

Participants are encouraged to bring an ongoing project, future area of work, or health-system challenge to explore throughout the workshop. Small-group activities and faculty guidance will help you connect the course concepts to your own work.

Enrollment deadline: October 16, 2026

For more information, visit ImS for Sustainable Health Systems short course

Questions? Contact ImplementationScience@ucsf.edu