AMS Environmental Coalition (AMS ECo)

AMS ECo is a student interest group promoting environmental sustainability in healthcare. Their primary focus is to suggest and implement sustainable practices among the Medical School community to ensure the University helps protect our natural environments and promotes a cleaner future. They also aim to educate their peers on living more environmentally friendly, both in their private lives and in their future medical practices. As the healthcare industry currently accounts for 10% of the nation’s greenhouse gas and 9% of the nation’s harmful air pollutant emissions, sustainable education and promotion among members of the healthcare community is an incredibly important task. “Other activities include, but are not limited to, community service and engagement, such as a waste audit at Kent Hospital’s Emergency Department Earth Day or Earth Week activities, and advocacy for policies that address the intersection of health and environment among various levels of government.

Community Health Advocacy Program (CHAP) 

The Community Health Advocacy Program (CHAP) at Brown works cooperatively with Providence organizations to promote the health of individuals and the community as a whole. Recent collaboration include Earth Day at Vartan Gregorian Elementary School, which brought together Brown undergraduate students and medical students to share planetary health and sustainability lessons with 4th and 5th graders. Through hands-on and engaging activities, volunteers taught students about healthy eating and composting, Lyme disease and global warming, sun safety, renewable energy and water conservation.