Iris Blom is a 26-year old PhD candidate at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine researching how to create health systems more sustainable and resilient 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. Iris has attended the COP25, COP26 and the first-ever UN Youth Climate Summit to advocate for health and published twice in the Lancet Planetary Health, underlining the importance of this relationship.   Moreover, Iris represents 1.3 million medical students to the World Health Organization and works to ensure the meaningful engagement of youth voices at the highest level of global health decision making as the Liaison Officer to the World Health Organization at the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA) from 2020-2022 and she is part of the very first Steering Committee of the World Health Organization Youth Council.