✨ 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

🚀 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

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...

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....

🗣️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...

🚨 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...

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!

190 people have registered for our Reimagining Global Health course! You can still apply! www.mcgill.ca/summerinstit...

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

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

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

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! 📝

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...

🌍✨ 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

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. ⬇️

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.

I think every lab page needs a Marty 😍😂 @loiclnlg.bsky.social www.lannelongue-group.org

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

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

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

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...

🦋 BlueSky features in @bmj.com ! My uber-connected colleague @munkeatlooi.bsky.social writes a gr8 explainer & answers all the Qs you were curious to ask 👇

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...

What an honour indeed! Congratulations @daalenkim.bsky.social 💜@countdowneurope.bsky.social 🎉

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 🫢

🚨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.

Hey you! I've got the #CDC clinical guidelines you need and used saved on my website. Please feel free to reach out to me, if you have saved ones that need to be added. #Contraception #Vaccines #STI pegasushealthjustice.com/cdc 🧵

Chaos in disguise, dead cat strategy & destructive proposal all in one: #Trump's proposal for an alternative to @who.int It will undermine trust & cooperation at a time when we need to strengthen #WHO We prebunk the idea & call on countries to reject it. www.bmj.com/content/388/... @bmj.com

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...

#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/...

The 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.

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! 😍

New @Cambridge_Uni research undertaken in two million people across 20 countries finds ⬆️ #meat consumption, particularly processed meat and unprocessed red meat, is associated with ⬆️type 2 #diabetes risk. Read - https://buff.ly/4csrCGm

Women less likely to use walking sticks over fears of social stigma, Mail Online reports Shereen Hussein explains joint LSHTM @uclofficial.bsky.social study shows barriers to access for women & highlights need for more inclusive approach to mobility aids. www.mailonsunday.co.uk/health/artic...

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

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...