Terri Scannell

Affiliation

OhioHealth

Track

Biography

Terri Scannell is Principal Advisor, Sustainability & ESG at OhioHealth. In her previous role, Terri was Senior Director, social responsibility, ESG and community benefit at Vizient. In her role at Vizient, Terri led corporate responsibility, as well as hospital community benefit and sustainability practices. Terri serves on the following: Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Accelerating Decarbonization Advisory Committee member; the Joint Commission-Environmental Sustainability Technical Advisory Panel; and the National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative on Decarbonizing Committee member. Terri led Vizient to sign the 2022 HHS Climate Pledge and created the first Taskforce for Climate-Related Financial Disclosures Issues Brief in healthcare. In May of 2023 Terri was appointed chair, elect of the Ohio Hospital Association’s Environmental Leadership Council. Terri has 25 years of experience leading corporate social responsibility, organizational sustainability, ESG, impact reporting, tax exempt status and financial management efforts. She served on the Culture of Health for Business Taskforce working with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Global Reporting Initiative. This endeavor received a World Changing Ideas 2020 Award from FastCompany. Terri worked with the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board to develop the SASB standards for healthcare and is an expert in the Global Reporting Initiative Framework. She participated in the White House Initiative: Greening America’s Hospitals and was selected for Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Executive Education in Sustainability Leadership, as well as Wharton’s Initiative for Global Climate Leadership. Terri holds degrees in Finance, a Master of Business Administration, and a post graduate degree in Law (UK).