Health Care Workers & Students Art Competition – Posters for Change

Irish Doctors for the Environment invites entries to their inaugural Posters for Change Competition 2026. Healthcare students and workers from all disciplines are invited to submit original works of art highlighting the themes of Healthcare, the Environment and Planetary Health.

The climate crisis is a health crisis. This is your chance to design a poster to campaign for change.  Posters will be judged on criteria of:  Originality & Creativity, Artistic Composition,  Visual Appeal & Impact,  Relevance to Theme.

As you can see above, our existing posters would benefit from an artistic touch! We’re looking for creative healthcare workers and students to use their talent to help us in our campaign. 
 

Entries will be submitted under two categories: Health Care Workers and Health Care Students, with 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes in each one.

1st Prize: €150 One4All voucher
2nd Prize: €100 One4All
3rd Prize: €75 One4All

All prizes include a 2-year free membership to IDE.

Your work will be used in promotional materials for IDE, including posters for marches, promotional images for social media, etc. Your work may also be displayed at a future Planetary Health Symposium, subject to planning and express consent of the artist. 

Submit your entry via this Google Form: https://forms.gle/2KjTXrDPkXVDc2259

Deadline for submission: 10pm, 30th April 2026

Guidance – What is Planetary Health?
Planetary Health is the field of environmental degradation, its link with social and climate injustice, and its impact on health and wellbeing.
 
Climate change and environmental harm will have a devastating impact on global health. We’re looking for eye-catching posters that illustrate this through clever imagery and slogan use. Participants can choose to address a specific issue, such as air pollution and health, or choose to address the theme in a general sense – that the climate crisis is a health crisis. 
 
There are many examples online of posters advocating for climate action in general (see examples below).
However, it is more difficult to find examples of posters that incorporate a health perspective. You can learn more about Planetary Health from the Planetary Health Alliance: https://planetaryhealthalliance.org/ , or feel free to drop us an email at irishdocsenv@ide.ie if you’d like to know more about the links between climate change and health.   

Examples of climate action posters:

All images owned by Irish Doctors for the Environment or taken from the open-source climate graphics by the UN https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/graphics .
Remember to also include the theme of health when designing your own posters.