On September 2nd, 2025, ESCH-R PI Nicole Hunfeld will present online during the Forum for the Ecological Transformation of Healthcare. This forum is being organized by The Swiss Consortium for Sustainable Health and Ecological Transformation of the Health System (ETHICH). The consortium is an association of national Swiss organisations that aim to coordinate their actions for an equitable and ecologically sustainable health system within planetary boundaries.

Date: 2 September, 2025
Time: 09.00 – 17.00
Location: Switzerland
Register via: https://www.ethich.ch/en/registration

Nicole will present online during the morning session “The circular economy in healthcare” between 10.15 and 10.40 about diving into the functioning of hospitals and their supply chains, with the ESCH-R project.

Other speakers during the morning session are:

• Prof. Christian Arnsperger, Economist by training he works at the Institute of Geography and Sustainability of the University of Lausanne, specialized in post-growth economic alternatives. 
• Dr. Timo Falkenberg, scientific researcher specialized in Public health and Health economics at the Institut for Hygiene & Public Health in Bonn, Germany. He is co-author of the 2024 paper « Sufficiency health-wise: sustainable paths towards planetary and public health », Frontiers Public Health 12: DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1497657, which he will present at the Forum.