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Principal Sustainability Advisor| Asset Management & Analysis, Health Infrastructure Unit, Ministry of HealthDebbie is a doubly qualified nurse (RMN/RGN), emigrated from the UK to NZ in 2008 and worked in ICU for years before moving into a sustainability managers role in 2012 for Counties Manukau district health board (CMDHB). Debbie co-established the environmental sustainability programme at the DHB working closely with a group of senior clinicians and oversaw the measurement of the first and subsequent organisational carbon footprints. Debbie graduated with a doctorate at Auckland University of Technology in 2020. Debbie’s research focus was sustainable healthcare practice, carbon measurement and reduction, sustainable waste management, organisational change management. Debbie started working at the Ministry of Health early 2020 developing guidance around sustainable design for healthcare infrastructure. Debbie is leading workstreams to assist sector compliance with the Carbon Neutral Government Programme. Debbie is also part of a small team offering advice around climate smart solutions on behalf of the Transition Unit for the interim Health New Zealand. Having completed training and becoming a Regenerative Practitioner at the end of 2021, Debbie is now shifting her attention onto regenerative practice. We cannot simply strive to sustain our health system, which nestles within the broader eco system; we need to move to system restoration and repair. |
