Environmental sustainability is today one of the major challenges facing the health and social care system. Complex organizational structures, high resource consumption, waste production and highly intensive processes make healthcare a strategic sector for promoting more responsible development models. In this context, green leadership plays a central role: leading sustainable change means being able to combine quality of care, safety, efficiency and attention to environmental impact.

Being a “green” leader in healthcare does not simply mean introducing technological solutions or adopting eco-friendly practices, but above all fostering an organizational culture oriented toward sustainability. Executives, coordinators and professionals with managerial responsibilities are called upon to integrate environmental considerations into decision-making processes, service planning, resource management and team engagement. Sustainability thus becomes a shared value, guiding everyday behaviors as well as medium- and long-term strategies.

Green leadership is also expressed through the ability to understand the complexity of the health and social care context and to activate gradual and realistic changes: reducing waste, using resources responsibly, ensuring proper management of healthcare waste, digitalizing processes and redesigning care pathways with a focus on efficiency and sustainability. All these areas require managerial skills, coordination capabilities and a systemic vision of how healthcare organizations function.

Within the Master in Healthcare, sustainability and green leadership are addressed in a cross-cutting manner, as an integral part of the skills needed to lead the services of the future. Training leaders capable of integrating sustainability, innovation and quality of care means investing in a more resilient healthcare system, attentive to people, communities and the environment.