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HECATE Education

We offer diverse educational formats to healthcare students, patients, and the wider community, as well as coaching for healthcare professionals and decision-makers. Our goal is to help them understand the connections between health and the environment, and to reduce healthcare’s environmental impact.

Sustainablity in Healthcare Course

We are proud to offer a cutting-edge course on sustainability in healthcare at Semmelwei University Budapest. As the world faces ever-increasing environmental challenges, it is crucial that healthcare professionals are equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to address these issues and promote sustainability in their practice. Our course offers a comprehensive curriculum that covers topics such as planetary health, sustainable healthcare management, green hospital design, renewable energy solutions, waste reduction and management, and sustainable healthcare policy development. Through a combination of lectures, case studies, and hands-on projects, students will gain a deep understanding of the importance of sustainability in healthcare, and how it can be integrated into their practice.

Green University Cooperation

Green University at Semmelwei University is a community of like-minded individuals who are committed to making a positive impact on the environment. The course is a student initiation.

HECATE Research

We build a community of healthcare students, professionals and decision makers and any stakeholders to be able to cooperate on intra- and inter-institutional level to foster change at local, national and global levels that leads to a more sustainable healthcare operation.

Cardiometeorology

Cardiometeorology is a new field of study that investigates how atmospheric parameters and climate change increase the incidence of cardiovascular disease. It is also concerned with developing prevention strategies against the negative effects of environmental factors that represent cardiovascular risks.
Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42830-6

A recent book on Cardiometeorology written by our founder Nora is now available in Hungarian language version in the bookstores and online.
https://www.semmelweiskiado.hu/termek/1887/kardiometeorologia

National Multidisciplinary Laboratory for Climate Change

We participate in clinical cardiovascular research projects about the connection between atmospheric and environmental parameters and acut cardiovascular diseases. Our research focuses on comprehensive and multi-level analyses to better understand the health impacts of climate and environmental change.

HECATE Cooperation

We create a community of healthcare students, professionals, decision-makers, and stakeholders. Our aim is to promote cooperation at the intra- and inter-institutional level to drive change towards a more sustainable healthcare system, locally, nationally, and globally.

Planetary Health Alliance

The planetary health alliance supports the dissemination of new research, the development and curation of foundational education materials, and the bringing together of communities of practice around the world. Hence that Nora is a planetary health ambassador HECATE aime to mobilize healthcare students and practitioners to recognize that the Earth Crisis represents an urgent health problem. We would like to facilitate knowledge to transformative action. We offer a platform for networking and getting involved.