Healthcare is responsible for 7% of the total Dutch greenhouse gas emissions. The causes are complex and diverse, which requires transdisciplinary collaboration to make real progress in reducing them. Innovation plays a key role in this.
Medical Delta is committed to making healthcare more sustainable through scientific research, a transdisciplinary approach, and innovation, as well as sharing knowledge about the sustainability of healthcare. Everyone can contribute to sustainability: privately, but also through the professional role they hold.
Would you like to think along and contribute to a more sustainable healthcare system? On this page, you can find more information about the available opportunities. With the following signposts, we aim to guide you as quickly as possible to the right place so you can start working on sustainability right away.
Thesis Lab Sustainable Healthcare: Removing Barriers
One of the initiatives to accelerate innovation and research towards greener healthcare is the Interdisciplinary Thesis Lab 'Sustainable Healthcare,' which Medical Delta has set up in collaboration with LDE Centre for Sustainability. Master's students from various disciplines and academic institutions dedicate their master theses to research on the real sustainability challenges of hospitals and the industry.
Within the Interdisciplinary Thesis Lab ‘Sustainable Healthcare,’ master's students search for answers to research questions submitted by hospitals and medical technology companies. From February to July, the students conduct research, guided by various practice experts such as healthcare professionals and technological innovators. The master's theses produced provide new insights and sometimes concrete solutions for making healthcare more sustainable. These are offered to the clients and made publicly available, contributing concretely to the sustainability of healthcare.
Click here for a detailed description of the Interdisciplinary Thesis Lab ‘Sustainable Healthcare’ and the current research questions being explored.
Outcomes of research from the Thesis Lab Sustainable Healthcare in previous years.
2024: Click here for the results and a detailed report of the roundtable discussion and the Medical Delta Café about the research findings.
2023: Click here for the results, a detailed report of the roundtable discussion, and the video recording of the Medical Delta Café about the research findings.
2022: Click here for the results, a detailed report of the roundtable discussion, and the video recording of the Medical Delta Café about the research findings.
