Dr Iris Blom
MD MSc MMSc
Research Degree Student
of Epidemiology & Population Health
LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom
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.
Affiliations
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Department of Population Health
Research
Environmentally sustainable health care systems with resilience to climate change
Research Area
Climate change
Environment
Health policy
Health systems
Environmental Health
Global Health
Discipline
Medicine
Social Policy
Selected Publications
Putting planetary health at the core of the medical curriculum in Amsterdam.
2023
The Lancet. Planetary health
The COP26 health commitments: A springboard towards environmentally sustainable and climate-resilient health care systems?
2022
The Journal of Climate Change and Health
Assessing the inclusion of health in national climate commitments: Towards accountability for planetary health✰
2021
The Journal of Climate Change and Health
Youth versus pandemics: the role of future generations in the pandemic treaty.
2021
The Lancet Global Health
A descriptive study exploring the worldwide involvement of medical students in the COVID-19 pandemic
2021
Journal of Public Health and Emergency
A Rapid Systematic Review Exploring the Involvement of Medical Students in Pandemics and Other Global Health Emergencies.
2020
Disaster medicine and public health preparedness