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Dr Iris Blom

Research Student - MPhil/PhD - Epidemiology & Population Health

United Kingdom

Dr Iris Blom is a PhD candidate at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, researching greenhouse gas mitigation in healthcare systems and its relation with adaptation in the context of climate change. She is a medical doctor from the Netherlands with a master's degree in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, as a Schwarzman Scholar. She has attended the UNFCCC COP25-COP28, and the first-ever UN Youth Climate Summit to advocate for health. She serves on the Lancet Commission on Sustainable Healthcare as working group co-chair and was selected as the first next-generation representative on the Steering Committee of the Planetary Health Alliance. She represented medical students worldwide to the World Health Organization from 2020 to 2022, during which she jointly set up the WHO Youth Council of Director-General Dr Tedros. She now continues to support youth engagement with the WHO.

Affiliations

Department of Population Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Research

Research Area
Climate change
Health systems
Environmental health
Health policy
Global health
Country
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Kenya

Selected Publications

Evaluating progress and accountability for achieving COP26 Health Programme international ambitions for sustainable, low-carbon, resilient health-care systems.
BLOM, IM; Rasheed, FN; Singh, H; Eckelman, MJ; Dhimal, M; Hensher, M; Guinto, RR; McGushin, A; Ning, X; Prabhakaran, P; Romanello, M; Van Alphen, D; Watts, N; Yu, JC; Zavaleta-Cortijo, C; MacNeill, AJ; Sherman, JD;
2024
The Lancet Planetary Health
Climate-Sensitive Health Outcomes in Kenya: A Scoping Review of Environmental Exposures and Health Outcomes Research, 2000 – 2023
GERARD, J; Kibaara, T; BLOM, IM; FALCONER, J; MOHAMMED, S; Kadri-Alabi, Z; Taylor, R; Abdullahi, L; HUGHES, R; Onyango, B; BRUNN, A;
2024
medRxiv
The global health community at international climate change negotiations.
Van Daalen, KR; Wyma, N; Schauer-Berg, J; BLOM, IM; Mattijsen, J; Othman, R; Eissa, M; Parks, RM; Wyns, A; Aboushady, AT; Hassan, M; Ezzine, T; Khan, S; Zayed, M-AE; Neggazi, S; Alqodmani, L; LOWE, R;
2024
BMJ global health
Effectiveness of greenhouse gas mitigation intervention for health-care systems: a systematic review.
BLOM, IM; Eissa, M; Mattijsen, JC; Sana, H; HAINES, A; WHITMEE, S;
2023
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Putting planetary health at the core of the medical curriculum in Amsterdam.
BLOM, IM; Rupp, I; De Graaf, IM; Kapitein, B; Timmermans, A; Sperna Weiland, NH;
2023
The Lancet. Planetary health
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