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
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
📊 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
December 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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
📊 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
🌍🌱 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
🚨 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...
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. ⬇️
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
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
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...
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...
www.barcelona.cat/barcelonacul...
February 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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...
www.barcelona.cat/barcelonacul...
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...
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...
February 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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...
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...
Excited to contribute 25 March on measuring, monitoring & evaluating health systems resilience.
Register🥳: publichealth.columbia.edu/research/pro...
January 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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...
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...
Read ➡️ nature.com/articles/s41...
January 28, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🥵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...
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...
Read more in our just published 📰 @bmj.com Open Cohort profile ⤵️🧐
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
January 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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...
Read more in our just published 📰 @bmj.com Open Cohort profile ⤵️🧐
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
📈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! 😍
Check them out 🖥️ ➡️https://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/en/observatory
Huge thanks to our authors for generating the data! 😍
December 19, 2024 at 1:46 PM
📈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! 😍
Check them out 🖥️ ➡️https://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/en/observatory
Huge thanks to our authors for generating the data! 😍
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!
Together with the new Directors, Prof Cathryn Tonne (@ctonne.bsky.social) & Prof. Joacim Rocklöv, they will be leading the Regional Centre!
December 16, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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!
Together with the new Directors, Prof Cathryn Tonne (@ctonne.bsky.social) & Prof. Joacim Rocklöv, they will be leading the Regional Centre!
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! 🚀💡
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! 🚀💡
December 13, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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! 🚀💡
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! 🚀💡
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...
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...
December 11, 2024 at 9:12 AM
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...
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!
Exciting to share experiences from the Lancet Countdown in Europe & connect with researchers among all the six cluster projects!
December 11, 2024 at 9:01 AM
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!
Exciting to share experiences from the Lancet Countdown in Europe & connect with researchers among all the six cluster projects!
🚨 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
Most sessions can be followed online through the Zoom links available: www.colonialism-climate.com/schedule
December 9, 2024 at 5:13 PM
🚨 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
Most sessions can be followed online through the Zoom links available: www.colonialism-climate.com/schedule
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
Thank you to Carrie Ngongo, Huiqi Chen, Adrienne Bernstein, & Kiran Sohail Azeemi for sharing your work on health systems under climate stress #HSR2024
November 22, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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
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
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
November 22, 2024 at 8:33 AM
“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
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
Brilliant session this morning on applying decolonisation feminist principles to our collective future. #HSR2024
November 22, 2024 at 5:39 AM
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
Brilliant session this morning on applying decolonisation feminist principles to our collective future. #HSR2024