Warwick Medical School has been ranked 10th out of all UK medical schools for incorporating planetary health into medical education.

Planetary Health Report Card Link opens in a new windowis an international student organisation advocating for the development of planetary health education in health professional schools. Each year, student teams at each participating institution complete metric-based reports assessing their institution's incorporation of planetary health.

2025 marks WMS’s fourth annual report, and we're pleased to share that this year we've been ranked 10th across all UK medical schools, with an overall grade of B+ (an improvement on last year's result).

Highlights from the report include:

• Curriculum: "WMS has made large amendments to the core curriculum ensuring planetary topics are present throughout all course phases, e.g. via CBL cases, lectures, clinical skills sessions, and clinical placements."
• Support for Student-Led Initiatives: "There is strong institutional support for student-led planetary health initiatives, e.g. numerous educational and cultural planetary health events led by the sustainability team, several different student planetary health funding and study opportunities, and strong staff involvement with the WMS Sustainability Network."
• Community Outreach and Advocacy: "There has been a significant improvement since the 2024 PHRC, which has occurred through implementation of community engagement projects such as pop-up health clinics, in addition to teaching hospitals releasing more patient information leaflets on environmental impacts on health. The provision of postgraduate taught modules on healthcare and sustainability directly discusses planetary health."
• Campus Sustainability: "The University of Warwick remains strongly committed to sustainability e.g. employment of a large in-house sustainability team, commitment to Net Zero for direct emissions by 2030, and numerous sustainability schemes."

Thank you to Suzi Laws and Hannah Layton-Joyce for leading the WMS submission.

See the WMS 2025 report here.