Kim R. van Daalen
@daalenkim.bsky.social
🌱 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
🫀 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
✨ Goodbye 20s, hello 30s! ✨
To mark the new decade, I’m running the 2026 London Marathon for the British Heart foundation! 🫀
After a long recovery, this feels like a celebration of resilience + a way to give back.
Support my fundraiser 👉https://2026tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/kim-van-daalen
To mark the new decade, I’m running the 2026 London Marathon for the British Heart foundation! 🫀
After a long recovery, this feels like a celebration of resilience + a way to give back.
Support my fundraiser 👉https://2026tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/kim-van-daalen
September 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
✨ Goodbye 20s, hello 30s! ✨
To mark the new decade, I’m running the 2026 London Marathon for the British Heart foundation! 🫀
After a long recovery, this feels like a celebration of resilience + a way to give back.
Support my fundraiser 👉https://2026tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/kim-van-daalen
To mark the new decade, I’m running the 2026 London Marathon for the British Heart foundation! 🫀
After a long recovery, this feels like a celebration of resilience + a way to give back.
Support my fundraiser 👉https://2026tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/kim-van-daalen
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🚀 We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Hannah Klauber as Co-Lead of our Economics & Finance Working Group! Joining from @pik-potsdam.bsky.social, she brings her expertise to strengthen indicators, connect researchers, and shape climate-health action. 🌍 #Leadership #ClimateChange #HealthEconomics
August 21, 2025 at 8:22 AM
🚀 We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Hannah Klauber as Co-Lead of our Economics & Finance Working Group! Joining from @pik-potsdam.bsky.social, she brings her expertise to strengthen indicators, connect researchers, and shape climate-health action. 🌍 #Leadership #ClimateChange #HealthEconomics
🌍🌱 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
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
August 8, 2025 at 8:06 AM
🌍🌱 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
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 Daalen
New 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...
The attribution of human health outcomes to climate change: transdisciplinary practical guidance - Climatic Change
For over 30 years, detection and attribution (D&A) studies have informed key conclusions in international and national assessments of climate science, providing compelling evidence for the reality and...
link.springer.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New 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...
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Now 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....
July 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Now 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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🗣️NEW SPEAKER!
@profsanderlinden.bsky.social will be speaking at LSHTM’s Health Misinformation UNPACKED, 15 September 2025, London/online. @lshtmcepr.bsky.social
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
@profsanderlinden.bsky.social will be speaking at LSHTM’s Health Misinformation UNPACKED, 15 September 2025, London/online. @lshtmcepr.bsky.social
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
July 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
🗣️NEW SPEAKER!
@profsanderlinden.bsky.social will be speaking at LSHTM’s Health Misinformation UNPACKED, 15 September 2025, London/online. @lshtmcepr.bsky.social
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
@profsanderlinden.bsky.social will be speaking at LSHTM’s Health Misinformation UNPACKED, 15 September 2025, London/online. @lshtmcepr.bsky.social
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
🚨 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...
📄 Led by Haitong Zhe Sun, read full:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM
🚨 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...
📄 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...
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...
June 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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...
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...
Our new 📰 discusses research gaps in occupational health in the era of climate change ⬇️
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
June 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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...
Our new 📰 discusses research gaps in occupational health in the era of climate change ⬇️
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Yesterday @ianguelovski.bsky.social @pkotsila.bsky.social
served as jury members for the 2024 Ciudad de Barcelona Awards @barcelonacat.bsky.social awarding the Lancet Countdown’s Europe Report on Health & Climate Change. Congrats to lead authors @daalenkim.bsky.social @drrachellowe.bsky.social!
served as jury members for the 2024 Ciudad de Barcelona Awards @barcelonacat.bsky.social awarding the Lancet Countdown’s Europe Report on Health & Climate Change. Congrats to lead authors @daalenkim.bsky.social @drrachellowe.bsky.social!
May 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Yesterday @ianguelovski.bsky.social @pkotsila.bsky.social
served as jury members for the 2024 Ciudad de Barcelona Awards @barcelonacat.bsky.social awarding the Lancet Countdown’s Europe Report on Health & Climate Change. Congrats to lead authors @daalenkim.bsky.social @drrachellowe.bsky.social!
served as jury members for the 2024 Ciudad de Barcelona Awards @barcelonacat.bsky.social awarding the Lancet Countdown’s Europe Report on Health & Climate Change. Congrats to lead authors @daalenkim.bsky.social @drrachellowe.bsky.social!
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190 people have registered for our Reimagining Global Health course!
You can still apply!
www.mcgill.ca/summerinstit...
You can still apply!
www.mcgill.ca/summerinstit...
May 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
190 people have registered for our Reimagining Global Health course!
You can still apply!
www.mcgill.ca/summerinstit...
You can still apply!
www.mcgill.ca/summerinstit...
Reposted by Kim R. van Daalen
Shocking that UK government plans to boost defence spending by cutting aid.
To add to the injustice, here is what Baroness Chapman, Minister of State for International Development, told the select committee she plans cuts to focus on: education & gender.
parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/... #aid
To add to the injustice, here is what Baroness Chapman, Minister of State for International Development, told the select committee she plans cuts to focus on: education & gender.
parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/... #aid
Parliamentlive.tv
International Development Committee
parliamentlive.tv
May 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Shocking that UK government plans to boost defence spending by cutting aid.
To add to the injustice, here is what Baroness Chapman, Minister of State for International Development, told the select committee she plans cuts to focus on: education & gender.
parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/... #aid
To add to the injustice, here is what Baroness Chapman, Minister of State for International Development, told the select committee she plans cuts to focus on: education & gender.
parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/... #aid
Reposted by Kim R. van Daalen
We 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
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
May 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
We 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
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
Reposted by Kim R. van Daalen
Està preparada Catalunya per afrontar les malalties que vindran❓
🌍L'escalfament global accelera i la globalització connecta: malalties abans llunyanes ja es transmeten localment
🗞En parla la investigadora del BSC @drrachellowe.bsky.social al Diari Ara
➡ www.bsc.es/ZFu
#dengue #mosquits #virus
🌍L'escalfament global accelera i la globalització connecta: malalties abans llunyanes ja es transmeten localment
🗞En parla la investigadora del BSC @drrachellowe.bsky.social al Diari Ara
➡ www.bsc.es/ZFu
#dengue #mosquits #virus
May 6, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Està preparada Catalunya per afrontar les malalties que vindran❓
🌍L'escalfament global accelera i la globalització connecta: malalties abans llunyanes ja es transmeten localment
🗞En parla la investigadora del BSC @drrachellowe.bsky.social al Diari Ara
➡ www.bsc.es/ZFu
#dengue #mosquits #virus
🌍L'escalfament global accelera i la globalització connecta: malalties abans llunyanes ja es transmeten localment
🗞En parla la investigadora del BSC @drrachellowe.bsky.social al Diari Ara
➡ www.bsc.es/ZFu
#dengue #mosquits #virus
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! 📝
If your review article was recently withdrawn from EHP, CEHR may be a good fit! We welcome submissions of review articles! 📝
April 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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! 📝
If your review article was recently withdrawn from EHP, CEHR may be a good fit! We welcome submissions of review articles! 📝
Reposted by Kim R. van Daalen
New research from @dadasara.bsky.social
Realist #evaluation in @bmj.com Global Health looks at how & why Safe Motherhood Action Groups #SMAGs use communication to improve maternal & newborn health care-seeking in #Zambia
Read paper doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2024-015961
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDVA...
Realist #evaluation in @bmj.com Global Health looks at how & why Safe Motherhood Action Groups #SMAGs use communication to improve maternal & newborn health care-seeking in #Zambia
Read paper doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2024-015961
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDVA...
How do the Safe Motherhood Action Groups in Zambia work?
YouTube video by Sara Dada
www.youtube.com
April 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
New research from @dadasara.bsky.social
Realist #evaluation in @bmj.com Global Health looks at how & why Safe Motherhood Action Groups #SMAGs use communication to improve maternal & newborn health care-seeking in #Zambia
Read paper doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2024-015961
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDVA...
Realist #evaluation in @bmj.com Global Health looks at how & why Safe Motherhood Action Groups #SMAGs use communication to improve maternal & newborn health care-seeking in #Zambia
Read paper doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2024-015961
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDVA...
Reposted by Kim R. van Daalen
🌍✨ The pursuit of #GenderJustice in global health is not simply an aspiration—it’s a necessity for 📈 health outcomes & addressing inequities.
Explore the intricate relationship between gender & health, obstacles to progress & key recommendations in a new Lancet Commission ➡️ hubs.li/Q03g3_-n0
Explore the intricate relationship between gender & health, obstacles to progress & key recommendations in a new Lancet Commission ➡️ hubs.li/Q03g3_-n0
Achieving gender justice for global health equity: the Lancet Commission on gender and global health
Achieving gender justice in global health—which we define as encompassing the realisation
of universal rights in relation to health equity and gender equality, while also addressing
the drivers of gen...
hubs.li
April 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
🌍✨ The pursuit of #GenderJustice in global health is not simply an aspiration—it’s a necessity for 📈 health outcomes & addressing inequities.
Explore the intricate relationship between gender & health, obstacles to progress & key recommendations in a new Lancet Commission ➡️ hubs.li/Q03g3_-n0
Explore the intricate relationship between gender & health, obstacles to progress & key recommendations in a new Lancet Commission ➡️ hubs.li/Q03g3_-n0
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. ⬇️
April 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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. ⬇️
Reposted by Kim R. van Daalen
Our health is intrinsically linked to the natural world. Quite simply: no nature, no health.
It’s time to change the narrative! Taking action for climate and nature is taking action for our health.
It’s time to change the narrative! Taking action for climate and nature is taking action for our health.
‘Our health is intrinsically linked to the natural world. Quite simply, no nature, no health’
If you think hospital waiting lists and access to GP care are challenging now, climate change will bring more difficulties
www.irishtimes.com
April 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Our health is intrinsically linked to the natural world. Quite simply: no nature, no health.
It’s time to change the narrative! Taking action for climate and nature is taking action for our health.
It’s time to change the narrative! Taking action for climate and nature is taking action for our health.
I think every lab page needs a Marty 😍😂 @loiclnlg.bsky.social www.lannelongue-group.org
March 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I think every lab page needs a Marty 😍😂 @loiclnlg.bsky.social www.lannelongue-group.org
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Pleased that our paper on shaping the narrative on #obesity was among the top ten most cited papers in #ObesityReviews
Particularly pleased to bring a #humanrights dimension that is too often missing
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@worldobesity.bsky.social @oha-updates.bsky.social
Particularly pleased to bring a #humanrights dimension that is too often missing
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@worldobesity.bsky.social @oha-updates.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Pleased that our paper on shaping the narrative on #obesity was among the top ten most cited papers in #ObesityReviews
Particularly pleased to bring a #humanrights dimension that is too often missing
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@worldobesity.bsky.social @oha-updates.bsky.social
Particularly pleased to bring a #humanrights dimension that is too often missing
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@worldobesity.bsky.social @oha-updates.bsky.social
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...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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...
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
Join us on Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/89999052979
March 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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
Join us on Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/89999052979
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Good to see @bmj.com urging resistance & exercising leadership in response to #Trump efforts to purge science of terms including #gender #women #diverse #equity #excluded #inclusion
🙏 @jocalynclark.bsky.social & @kamranabbasi.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
@chrischirp.bsky.social
🙏 @jocalynclark.bsky.social & @kamranabbasi.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
@chrischirp.bsky.social
Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology
The news that on 31 January 2025 the Trump administration instructed scientists employed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw or retract articles from medical and sci...
www.bmj.com
February 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Good to see @bmj.com urging resistance & exercising leadership in response to #Trump efforts to purge science of terms including #gender #women #diverse #equity #excluded #inclusion
🙏 @jocalynclark.bsky.social & @kamranabbasi.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
@chrischirp.bsky.social
🙏 @jocalynclark.bsky.social & @kamranabbasi.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
@chrischirp.bsky.social
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...
Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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...
Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...