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The Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE) is the leading global nursing organization focused on the intersection of human health and planetary health. ANHE champions nurses as critical to promoting and protecting human health from environmental harm associated with degradation and disruption of Earth’s natural systems, especially for populations that are disproportionately exposed and overburdened. ANHE leads in engaging, educating, and mobilizing nurses in support of environmental health equity and justice.
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Nursing on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis Course: Strategies for Advocacy and Action addresses this critical need and builds upon the foundational concepts of the first course, Nursing on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis Course: Education for Action. Both courses were developed through a partnership between the Global Nurses Working Group (GNWG)/Nursing Climate Resources for Health Education (N-CRHE); Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health/Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE), the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE), the Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment (CANE); Climate Action Nurses (CAN), and ANHE Latinoamérica.
Join the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE) and the Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs & Leaders (SONSIEL) for a series of exciting virtual events leading up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in November 2025! These engaging and interactive sessions, held from April to October 2025, provide an overview of the COP process, how nurses have historically engaged, the broader health community’s urgent call for climate action to safeguard human health, and the context for this year’s COP in Belém, Brazil. The events will showcase inspiring sustainability and innovation initiatives led by nurses on the ground, around the world, and participation at COP. Join us as we explore how health professionals are driving change and why climate action is more crucial than ever!
The ANHE Education Forum is a group of dedicated nurse educators in academia and clinical practice who support environmental nursing education for nursing students entering practice; advanced nursing education at the graduate level; and faculty development. We also offer a collegial place for nurse educators to collaborate with other nurses who value environmental health nursing education. The Education Forum offers curricular recommendations to infuse environmental health nursing across nursing curricula, teaching tips to engage nursing students in environmental health as part of nursing practice, and an online, open access ANHE e-textbook, Environmental Health in Nursing.
The Research Forum frames and supports an agenda for enabling nurses to solve environmental challenges to health through the creation of new knowledge. We would be delighted if you would consider joining the Research Forum, where we highlight research talks and new research directions using a journal club format. We aim to bring members together to collaborate on publications, grant proposals, and policy actions related to environmental health. The Research Forum provides excellent resources, support, and mentorship for all researcher experience levels. Together, novice and experienced nurse researchers focus on environmental health issues of concern. The ANHE Research Forum benefits from close partners working in advocacy, practice, and education. Critical research questions arise from these relationships and the resulting research agenda reflects the most current and pressing challenges of our profession.
All nurses practice, whether it is in clinical care, patient education, academia, research, entrepreneurialism, or the many other roles of nurses. The profession also has a performance standard which states “The registered nurse practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.” This means both preventing and reducing risk of environmental exposures for the patients and communities that nurses care for and addressing the environmental impacts caused by pollution from healthcare and nursing practice. This applies to all of us, no matter what practice setting or where the profession takes us. The Practice Forum offers webinars and networking to help nurses achieve the standard of an environmentally safe and healthy practice.
The Policy & Advocacy Forum meets to discuss current policy issues and the critical role that nurses can play in advocating to protect public health and the environment at all levels of government. The Forum’s rich discussions lead to actions that elevate the voice of nursing on some of the most pressing issues of our time including climate change, environmental impacts, and toxic chemical pollution. Nurses are the most trusted profession and we must use our collective voice to advocate for health protective laws and regulations. The Policy & Advocacy Forum will help you to get involved in doing just that!