Dr Iris Blom
Research Student - MPhil/PhD - Epidemiology & Population Health
United Kingdom
Iris Blom is a Ph.D. candidate at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, researching greenhouse gas mitigation in health care systems and its relation with adaptation in the context of climate change. She is a medical doctor from the Netherlands with a Master's Degree in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, as a Schwarzman Scholar. She has attended the UNFCCC COP25, COP26, COP27, and the first-ever UN Youth Climate Summit to advocate for planetary health. She is the first next-generation representative on the Steering Committee of the Planetary Health Alliance and serves on the Lancet Commission on Sustainable Healthcare. She represented medical students worldwide to the World Health Organization from 2020 to 2022, during which she jointly set up the WHO Youth Council of the Director-General Dr Tedros. She now continues to support youth engagement with the WHO.
Affiliations
Department of Population Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Research
Research Area
Climate change
Health systems
Environmental health
Health policy
Global health
Country
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Kenya
Selected Publications
Climate-Sensitive Health Outcomes in Kenya: A Scoping Review of Environmental Exposures and Health Outcomes Research, 2000 – 2023
2024
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Annexes to: A Systematic Review to Identify the Effectiveness of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Interventions for Healthcare Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
2023
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Effectiveness of greenhouse gas mitigation intervention for health-care systems: a systematic review.
2023
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Putting planetary health at the core of the medical curriculum in Amsterdam.
2023
The Lancet. Planetary health
PRISMA-P Checklist for ‘A Systematic Review Protocol for Identifying the Effectiveness of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Interventions for Health Care Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries’
2022
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
The COP26 health commitments: A springboard towards environmentally sustainable and climate-resilient health care systems?
2022
The Journal of Climate Change and Health