A unique collaboration to tackle health care emissions | Takeda Stories
A first-of-its-kind collaboration to tackle health care emissions
Watch a 4-minute video to learn about our unique collaboration with Boston Medical Center to help improve human health by addressing climate change
In her role as vice president of mission and associate chief medical officer at Boston Medical Center (BMC), Dr. Thea James considers every factor that has an impact on patient health.
“Without having healthy environments for our patients to live in…we are not able to do our job. So, we just expand our definition of health care,” she says.
Dr. Thea James, vice president of mission and associate chief medical officer at Boston Medical Center
As a large, essential hospital serving populations in underinvested communities, BMC has a deep understanding of the intersection between community health and climate resilience. This collaboration builds on our ongoing work with BMC to support their Health Equity Accelerator, which focuses on eliminating race and ethnic-based health disparities through clinical care, research, education, community engagement, policy, and advocacy.
Teresa Bitetti, president of global oncology at Takeda
Teresa Bitetti, Takeda’s president of global oncology, says this partnership with BMC is a natural extension of our centuries-old commitment of putting patients at the center of all we do.
“Boston Medical Center is a leader in terms of what they do with patient care, but also in terms of what they do for sustainability,” Teresa says. “We can work with them to figure out how we apply innovation and technology to (reducing the emissions from) single-use products, to medical waste, and then how do we take that learning and spread that out so that others learn from it as well.”
Takeda's role in the collaboration
Research and innovation: We will conduct life cycle assessments to understand the environmental impact of different waste streams and explore design innovations that reduce emissions from pharmaceutical products and packaging.
Creating solutions: We’ll be responsible for developing tools and materials that can be shared across the health care ecosystem, ensuring that our learnings benefit the entire industry.
Collaborating to achieve scale: By engaging with key players across the supply chain, including suppliers, packaging providers and waste management companies, we will strive to make the decarbonization solutions we develop scalable and practical.
