The 2nd CLEAN MED Conference will be held in Stockholm on 29-31 May 2006. This conference gathers together health care professionals, health care managers, researchers, purchasing managers, political decision-makers and others interested in making healthcare systems ecologically sustainable.

The topics covered will be green construction, environmental impact of pharmaceuticals, pollution and health, sustainability, and green procurement. There are opportunities to participate in the congress, in exhibit materials, and present posters.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn the latest facts about environmental problems in the healthcare sector and ways to solve them. At the conference you will have the possibility to listen to numerous interesting speakers.

Among the speakers:
 Joshua Karliner, International team coordinator from Health Care Without Harm, speaks about "Sustainability for Health Care: Global Perspective" Joshua Karliner gives you a global South perspective on environmental issues in health care, mercury elimination from health care worldwide and much more.

 David Taylor, professor from Brixham Enviromental Laboratory, AstraZeneca, UK, speaks about "Environmental Aspects in the Development of New Drugs" David Taylor gives you environmental aspects of the active pharmaceutical substance such as ecotoxicity, bioaccumulation and degradability which can be considered when new drugs are developed.

 Anna Vesterberg, Head of the Environmental and Sustainability Department, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden, speaks about "How to make a company’s manager take responsibility for the improvements". Anna Vesterberg will outline some important factors to make an Environmental Management System work in a large hospital.

 Andreas Lischka, Professor, from Children’s Clinic, Glanzing, speaks about "PVC Free Neonatology: A Case Study from Children’s Clinic Glanzing" Andreas Lischka gives a presentation of the case study and also talks about how a wider PVC phase-out would be possible.

 More information on the conference website