Leading on Climate
Jai Eun Huh
Bonnie Reiss CNI Fellow Class of 2022
School of Dentistry
UC San Francisco Health
Project Description
The pandemic has brought single-use personal protective equipment into spotlight. However, clinical operations in the hospital continue to rely on single-use materials and have yet to develop consistent systems for monitoring these environmental impacts. Jai Eun’s overarching goal for the fellowship 2021-2022 is to help with reducing supply waste in healthcare by (1) public engagement outreach efforts and creating educational module for UCSF (2) collecting data and building on existing data such as helping to perform audits on surgical cases (3) analyzing supply waste and performing Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) on single use items versus reusable alternatives