Kim R. van Daalen
🌱 Environmental epidemiologist
🫀 BHF CRE Career Development Fellow University of Cambridge
🍃 Former Fellow Lancet Countdown Europe & BSC Postdoc
🎓 Gates Cambridge alumna
📚 Honorary Fellow UCL
🌐 Researching environment, health & (gender) equity
- Used a John Snow reference in class today. Today’s undergrads do not know Game of Thrones. Please respect my privacy during this difficult time.🧓
- New Pub!✨👀 After screening 266,669 📰, we synthesised *all* evidence on diversity in academic global health. 📊 226 studies on editorial boards + 603 on authorship → representation remains limited. The evidence is (& has been) clear - it’s time for structural reform.🔥 🔗https://tinyurl.com/ymjtucz8
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- 🌍🌱 New for young readers (8–15): How climate change affects health, and how climate action helps! Our new Frontiers for Young Minds article turns @countdowneurope.bsky.social findings into clear, hopeful insights. 🔗 Read: kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... 📊 Infographics: shorturl.at/wmt0X
- Reposted by Kim R. van DaalenNew workshop paper out today with 60 of our closest friends, providing guidance on how to design a study attributing health impacts to climate change. Hopefully this helps expand the field and start closing the representation gaps we discuss in our forthcoming work link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Kim R. van DaalenNow is the time that I remind you that, while plague has been endemic in the western United States for 70+ years and this is a normal occurrence, our work does seem to strongly suggest climate change is increasing spillover risk onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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- 🚨 Our new study of 147,979 pregnancies 🤰🏻 across 9 Chinese provinces finds that combined PM₂.₅ and ozone exposure increases low birth weight risk - with critical exposure windows from preconception to the second trimester. 📄 Led by Haitong Zhe Sun, read full: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Millions of people worldwide 🌍 are chronically exposed to environmental arsenic. In this new📄, we explore whether associations between environmental arsenic & risk of adverse cardiometabolic 🫀 outcomes change in the presence of common genetic 🧬 variations. ⬇️ www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
- Climate change 🌎 poses a growing threat to workers' health, through direct exposure to environmental hazards and indirect exacerbation of social & health inequalities. Our new 📰 discusses research gaps in occupational health in the era of climate change ⬇️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Reposted by Kim R. van DaalenWe are now on Bluesky! Follow us to keep up to date with our research and find out what goes on at the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit in the @dphpc.bsky.social #cardiovasculardisease #prevention #healthcare #bigdata #globalhealth #publichealth #riskfactors
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- Current Environmental Health Reports (CEHR) stands with the environmental health community amid cuts to U.S. federal health agencies during this uncertain time.💔 If your review article was recently withdrawn from EHP, CEHR may be a good fit! We welcome submissions of review articles! 📝
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- A fantstic new paper by Gina E.C. Charnley et al. discussing the lessons Europe can learn on vector-borne disease control from endemic countries, and advocating for the expansion of transdisciplinary knowledge-sharing partnerships, to co-create proactive measures against vector-borne diseases. ⬇️
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- I think every lab page needs a Marty 😍😂 @loiclnlg.bsky.social www.lannelongue-group.org
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- Incredible new @nature.com Communications paper 📃 by Meade et al. in which they synthesize the findings from over 400 laboratory-based heat exposure studies to improve understanding of the effects of heat stress on cardiac responses 🥵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Excited to be speaking at the Planetary Health Alliance webinar about the 2024 Report of the @countdowneurope.bsky.social this Wednesday! Join us on Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/89999052979
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- In our new comment on behalf of the @countdowneurope.bsky.social, we reflect on the role of Europe in safeguarding the health of our planet and societies in an "America first" era. ⤵️ Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- A new preprint finds that standard heat-mortality exposure-response functions underestimate excess deaths in France during August 2003 by 60%. However, incorporating the compounding effects of consecutive hot days improves the match with observed mortality. ⤵️
- For the urban health - climate folks, the IPCC still has a call out for Chapter scientists to contribute to the IPCC Special report on Climate Change and Cities. The deadline is midnight CET on Friday 14 Feb🌹 In case of interest ⬇️ www.linkedin.com/posts/ipcc_i...
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- Really grateful to be (unexpectedly) awarded the 2024 Barcelona City Award in the category of Environmental and Earth Sciences 🌱 alongside my dear colleague and mentor @drrachellowe.bsky.social for our work on climate and health with the Lancet Countdown Europe! www.barcelona.cat/barcelonacul...
- Glad to be back #Cambridge 🫢
- Reposted by Kim R. van Daalen🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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- One year of learning to live with chronic pain. I’m grateful to have regained most mobility, but many aren’t as lucky. Too many, especially women, are dismissed & left to suffer in silence. Thank you, Jennifer, for shedding light on this 🎧 @nytimes.com nytimes.com/2025/02/02/p...
- Start of the @columbiauniversity.bsky.social European Climate Resilient Health Systems Course with over >1500 participants today! 👀 Excited to contribute 25 March on measuring, monitoring & evaluating health systems resilience. Register🥳: publichealth.columbia.edu/research/pro...
- 🥵New @nature.com Medicine 📰 by @pmasselot.bsky.social et al. provides clear evidence that even under the mildest climate change scenarios temperature-related net mortality will increase (i.e., heat-related deaths will far exceed any drop related to cold.) 📈 Read ➡️ nature.com/articles/s41...
- The BELIEVE study is a household-based prospective cohort study with 73883 participants to investigate biological🧬, behavioural 🚲, & environmental 🌱determinants of NCDs in Bangladesh. Read more in our just published 📰 @bmj.com Open Cohort profile ⤵️🧐 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
- Reposted by Kim R. van Daalen#Trump’s withdrawal from @who.int was widely anticipated & criticised for damage it will cause. It serves as a wake-up call for the importance of multilateralism in the face of American unilateralism. In our @bmj.com piece, we outline actions to address the crisis www.bmj.com/content/388/...
- Reposted by Kim R. van DaalenThe labour impacts indicator by Prof @profejzrobinson.bsky.social & me is featured on the #EEA European Climate and Health Observatory! Findings clearly show non-linear impact of temperature on working hours. Losses in Cent-East, West, & Southern (large) Europe but gains up North.
- 📈14 of the 2024 (@countdowneurope.bsky.social) indicators are now available as interactive visualisations on the European Climate and Health Observatory!🥳🤩 Check them out 🖥️ ➡️https://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/en/observatory Huge thanks to our authors for generating the data! 😍
- Interested in data linkage, involving post-processing, downscaling, integration, harmonization and machine learning techniques, and visualization of multi-source, multi-scale climatological and epidemiological datasets? 👀 Join Prof. Rachel Lowe's amazing team # Barcelona Supercomputing Center! 🥰
- 📈14 of the 2024 (@countdowneurope.bsky.social) indicators are now available as interactive visualisations on the European Climate and Health Observatory!🥳🤩 Check them out 🖥️ ➡️https://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/en/observatory Huge thanks to our authors for generating the data! 😍
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- Two amazing people Dr. Hedi Kriit & Dr. José Chen (@josecx.bsky.social), have taken over my role as the Lancet Countdown in Europe Research Fellow 😍 Together with the new Directors, Prof Cathryn Tonne (@ctonne.bsky.social) & Prof. Joacim Rocklöv, they will be leading the Regional Centre!
- The Lancet Countdown in Europe has now also joined BlueSky: @countdowneurope.bsky.social 👀 One of the new research fellows @josecx.bsky.social will be tweeting about all things climate and health in Europe! Follow the account for more! 🥳
- Thrilled that I’ll be (re)joining Cambridge Cardiovascular Epi Unit as a BHF CRE Career Development Fellow starting Feb 2025!🎉 Immensely grateful to @drrachellowe.bsky.social, BSC & LCDE for the 2ish yrs🥰 Endless thanks to my mentors & friends for their support. Here’s to new beginnings! 🚀💡
- Huge congrats to @hannahforde.bsky.social for winning a Wellcome Early Career Award focused on such an important research topic! 🌎🌱
- (1/4) I’m delighted to share that I’ve been awarded a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Early Career Award 🌞 Starting in April ’25, I’ll spend five years exploring the development of and public support for healthy and planet-friendly food marketing policies
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- Escalating heat 🥵 exposure poses a major threat to maternal and neonatal health. A new key systematic review and meta-analysis of heat exposure impacts on maternal, fetal and neonatal health was just published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social Medicine last month. ⤵️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Thank you to the Climate & Health Cluster for organising the workshop on bridging the gap between scientific evidence and decision-making processes last week! Exciting to share experiences from the Lancet Countdown in Europe & connect with researchers among all the six cluster projects!
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- 🚨 Join UPF Barcelona tomorrow and wednesday for a hybrid conference on colonialism, genocide, and climate change. Most sessions can be followed online through the Zoom links available: www.colonialism-climate.com/schedule
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- The climate crisis is not a far in the future scenario. It is happening now, and affecting every aspect of health. Thank you to Carrie Ngongo, Huiqi Chen, Adrienne Bernstein, & Kiran Sohail Azeemi for sharing your work on health systems under climate stress #HSR2024
- “We keep generating policy briefs & materials - as if what is missing is another PDF. Yet who has power decides what is considered knowledge and who gets a seat on the decision-making table. We must stop side-tabling the issue of power, & confront it head on.” #HSR2024
- You can passively sit by and let the future happen to you or you can actively work to change it. 🍃 Brilliant session this morning on applying decolonisation feminist principles to our collective future. #HSR2024
- 🚨 Remember the first photo #COP29? In a quick analysis, we show that only *39.8%* of #COP29 participants were women or gender-diverse people (20,829/52,305) - based on the provisional list of participants. This was only 34.9% #COP29 Party participants. Full % breakdown second photo⬇️
- Come check out our work on the gender-climate-health nexus today at spot 125 #HSR2024 or find me somewhere roaming around the venue! 🏃♀️ Full article: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
- Lots of women in global health present #HSR2024 🥳
- “We are living the climate 🌍crisis right now, and this is coupled with environmental pollution. It is not far in the⏳ future. It is a lived experience now.” @shwetanarayan30.bsky.social #HSR2024 @gchalliance.bsky.social #COP29 #climatehealth24
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- 🍃 Interested in the gender-climate-health nexus and #HSR2024? Come have a look 👀 at our poster *Wednesday* spot 125, which highlights results recently published in TheLancetPlanet 📄⤵️ (The poster is gigantic thus you will be able to see all the details 😂)
- 🚨🧠 In our new Nature Mental Health 📰 we highlight the impacts of climate change on mental health, and the relevance for international climate governance. Published at #COP29 #Healthday 🌍! Have a read ⤵️ nature.com/articles/s4422…
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