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Miss Blanca Anton

Research Fellow

United Kingdom

Blanca joined LSHTM as a Research Assistant in November 2022 after completing her MSc in Health and International Development at the London School of Economics. She has a background in health communication and previous work experience with OHCHR, UNICEF, and UNDP.

Affiliations

Department of Population Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Teaching

Blanca is a tutor for the courses ‘Design & Analysis of Epidemiological Studies (DANES)’, ‘Statistics for Epidemiology and Population Health (STEPH)’, and the distance learning course ‘Writing and Reviewing Epidemiological Papers’. She is also a deputy module organiser for the course 'Planetary Health in Practice'.

Research

Blanca’s work focuses on the health co-benefits of climate mitigation actions and she is part of the Pathfinder Initiative and the WinWindow research project. She also worked on a project with the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) on climate and health financing.
Research Area
Climate change
Environmental health
Public health
Planetary health
Social and structural determinants of health
Health policy
Population health

Selected Publications

Opportunities and challenges for financing women's, children's and adolescents' health in the context of climate change.
ANTON, B; Cuevas, S; Hanson, M; Bhutta, ZA; Langlois, EV; Iaia, DG; Gasparri, G; BORGHI, J;
2024
BMJ global health
An umbrella review of health co-benefits from actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 2024 PLANETARY HEALTH SUMMIT AND 6TH ANNUAL MEETING (PHAM 2024)
REYNOLDS, T; WHITMEE, S; GREEN, R; HAINES, A; ANTON, B;
2024
Pathways to a Healthy Net-Zero Future: Case Studies from the Pathfinder Initiative
ANTON, B; WHITMEE, S; GREEN, R; HAINES, A; REYNOLDS, T;
2024
Pathways to a Healthy Net-Zero Future: Pathfinder Initiative Review of Evidence
WHITMEE, S; GREEN, R; ANTON, B; HAINES, A; REYNOLDS, T;
2024
An umbrella review of health co-benefits from actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
REYNOLDS, T; WHITMEE, S; GREEN, R; ANTON, B; HAINES, A;
2024
The Lancet. Planetary health
Climate finance opportunities for health and health systems.
BORGHI, J; Cuevas Garcia-Dorado, S; ANTON, B; Gerardo, D; Gasparri, G; Hanson, M; Soucat, A; Bustreo, F; Langlois, EV;
2024
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Pathways to a healthy net-zero future: report of the Lancet Pathfinder Commission.
WHITMEE, S; GREEN, R; Belesova, K; HASSAN, S; Cuevas, S; MURAGE, P; PICETTI, R; Clercq-Roques, R; MURRAY, K; FALCONER, J; ANTON, B; REYNOLDS, T; SHARMA WADDINGTON, H; HUGHES, RC; Spadaro, J; Aguilar Jaber, A; Saheb, Y; Campbell-Lendrum, D; Cortés-Puch, M; Ebi, K; Huxley, R; Mazzucato, M; Oni, T; De Paula, N; Peng, G; ... HAINES, A.
2023
Lancet
Pathfinder Initiative: Analysing the effects of implemented climate mitigation actions on health and greenhouse gas emissions
ANTON, B;
2023
ENBEL: Connecting Health and Climate Change
Place-based capacity building to enhance resilience in tropical countries
Iñiguez-Gallardo, V; Campbell, D; Castellanos, EJ; Haryanto, B; Tume, SJ P; Rahman, MS; Weber, E; BORGHI, J; Cuevas Garcia-Dorado, S; ANTON, B;
2023
One earth
Accountability for carbon emissions and health equity.
WHITMEE, S; ANTON, B; HAINES, A;
2023
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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