Sustainability Committee
The Sustainability Committee engages WFSA, other societies, and peer medical associations on sustainability in anaesthesia. The healthcare industry has a disproportionately large environmental footprint, and the operating room is the largest consumer of resources and producer of waste in most hospitals.
Read more about WFSA’s principles for environmentally sustainable anaesthesia.
Key committee aims:
- Educate and promote environmental stewardship best practices, policies, and strategies among the membership of WFSA through the continuum of education and advocacy programs.
- Assist and guide WFSA leadership and administration on matters of corporate environmental sustainability best practices.
- Provide feedback via WFSA leadership to governmental and accreditation agencies regarding the environmental and potential population health impacts of regulatory mandates that influence anaesthesia practice.
- Convene groups for the development of policy statements and the evaluation of potential environmental health impacts of existing WFSA practices, policies, standards, and practice parameters, and provide feedback as appropriate.
- Evaluate and promote methods to optimize perioperative care and pain management in a changing environment
2024-2026 Sustainability Committee Activities:
- Advocacy for the removal of piped nitrous oxide
- Engaging with the Alliance for Transformative Action on Climate Health (ATACH)
Additional Resources:
- Principles of environmentally sustainable anaesthesia: a global consensus statement from the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists
- The influence of perioperative systems on global warming
Members of the Sustainability Committee:
| Chair | |
| Jodi Sherman | USA |
| Deputy Chair | |
| Cliff Shelton | UK |
| Africa and the Middle East | |
| Nathalie Mejeni | Cameroon |
| Gwen Morgan | South Africa |
| Asia | |
| Xiangdong Chen | China |
| Simantika Ghosh | India |
| Pui San Loh | Malaysia |
| Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands | |
| Forbes McGain | Australia |
| Central and South America, Mexico and the Caribbean Islands | |
| Christian Nilo Schultz | Chile |
| Claudia Marquez Simões | Brazil |
| Europe | |
| Salome Meyer | Switzerland |
| Jane Muret | France |
| North America | |
| Seema Gandhi | USA |
| Vivian Hy Ip | Canada |
| Craig D. McClain | USA |
