A green and healthy hospital and research environment is one that promotes public health by continuously reducing its environmental impact and ultimately eliminating its contribution to the burden of disease. Cognizant of this, AHRI over the past three years has taken steps towards environmental action to ensure that it leads in the practice of primary prevention by actively engaging in efforts to foster community environmental health and health equity, in its surrounding. To this end the Institute recently launched an environmental friendly bio-medical waste incinerator within the research campus. For a comprehensive understanding of the project from “Conception to Installation”, the PR division reached out to Mr. Seid Mustefa, AHRI’s Environmental Health Researcher, for in-depth insights on the environmental cautious project. The following are excerpts from the candid interview;