Center for Sustainable Healthcare

We offer sustainable and innovative solutions for a transformative universal healthcare delivery. Our services are in three strands:

  • Promoting low-carbon, climate-resilient and sustainable healthcare infrastructure and technologies.
  • Providing evidence and insight on environment and health to establish a basis for health sector action and solutions
  • Mainstreaming health considerations into development projects

Scope of Niko Green healthcare services

Policy advisory and advocacy

  • Sustainable Development Strategy for Healthcare

    We support County Governments in developing the vision for a sustainable healthcare system by reducing carbon emissions, protecting natural resources, preparing communities for extreme weather events and promoting healthy lifestyles and environments.

  • Climate-smart healthcare coordination and partnerships

    We assist the Ministry of Health and County Departments of Health to strengthen multi-sectoral coordination mechanisms and networks for climate-smart healthcare at all levels.

Research and audits

  • Sustainable healthcare research

    Our sustainable healthcare research provides evidence of best practices, assessment of current situation and of the resources that can be mobilized to address the gaps, to inform policy, program design and implementation of climate-smart healthcare initiatives.

  • Health Impact Assessment (HIA)

    Health impact assessment (HIA) helps ensure that health and wellbeing are being properly considered in planning policies and proposals. We provide bespoke advice and support on assessing the health and wellbeing impacts of development

  • Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) management

    Our IAQ management services include: Air quality monitoring, developing emission inventory, air pollution dispersion modeling, data collection from the primary and secondary sources and technical writing

  • Safety Risk Assessment (SRA)

    We provide expert guidance in assessing the underlying (latent) conditions that can lead to harm. The safety risk assessment targets six areas of safety: infections, falls, medication errors, security, injuries of behavioral health, and patient handling.

Capacity building

  • Sustainable healthcare trainings

    Our Sustainable healthcare education program is aimed at educating the public and healthcare professionals about the health effects of climate change, and how climate change policy and consumption choices influence the health of our communities. We offer a variety of customized trainings, tools and resources to help healthcare practitioners set goals and implement strategies to reduce their climate impacts, ensure continuity of care in extreme weather events, and protect community health a

  • Sustainable procurement

    We empower healthcare institutions to embed sustainability into purchasing processes and engage suppliers to provide innovative, sustainable products with a reduced impact on human health and the environment.

Climate-friendly healthcare infrastructure, technologies and services

  • Green and healthy healthcare buildings

    We are committed to transforming healthcare settings into healing environments that improve outcomes through the creative use of evidence based sustainable design. We envision a future where healing environments are recognized as a vital part of therapeutic treatment and where the design of healthcare settings contributes to health and environmental conservation.

  • Climate-friendly healthcare waste management

    We provide safe, sustainable, innovative, and compliant waste management solutions based on zero waste disposal strategies that protect the general public, preserve our ecosystem, and improve our way of life.

    • Medical Waste Sterilization Technologies
    • Waste Collection Commodities
    • Medical Waste Transportation Vessels
    • Mobile Sterilization Systems
    • Kitchen Waste Compost System

  • Energy

    We help accelerate the implementation of energy efficiency while promoting clean, renewable energy in health care, mobilizing the sector as a leader for a healthy energy future for all.

  • Food

    We help you create, and implement healthier food programs to promote, purchase, and serve sustainably grown, healthy food to improve environmental health, build better food systems, and address the upstream social and economic determinants of non-communicable diseases.

  • Transport

    We will help you enact more sustainable transportation strategies for patients, their families, and staff that support healthier local and regional transport systems while reducing health care's environmental impact.

  • Water

    We help in establishing procedures and projects for improving water efficiency and for reducing demands on water supplies and local waste water treatment systems for health facilities’ operations.