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Kim R. van Daalen @daalenkim.bsky.social · 29d

✨ 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

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Lancet Countdown Europe @countdowneurope.bsky.social · Aug 21

🚀 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

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Kim R. van Daalen @daalenkim.bsky.social · Aug 8

🌍🌱 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

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Jul 25

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...

The attribution of human health outcomes to climate change: transdisciplinary practical guidance - Climatic Change

For over 30 years, detection and attribution (D&A) studies have informed key conclusions in international and national assessments of climate science, providing compelling evidence for the reality and...

link.springer.com

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Jul 11

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....

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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social · Jul 7

🗣️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...

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Kim R. van Daalen @daalenkim.bsky.social · Jul 1

🚨 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...

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Kim R. van Daalen @daalenkim.bsky.social · Jun 26

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...

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Kim R. van Daalen @daalenkim.bsky.social · Jun 21

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...

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BCNUEJ @bcnuej.bsky.social · May 27

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!

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · May 26

190 people have registered for our Reimagining Global Health course!

You can still apply!

www.mcgill.ca/summerinstit...

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Kent Buse @kentbuse.bsky.social · May 20

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

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International Development Committee

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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · May 19

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

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BSC-CNS @bsc-cns.bsky.social · May 6

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

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Kim R. van Daalen @daalenkim.bsky.social · Apr 30

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! 📝

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UCD Research @ucdresearch.bsky.social · Apr 24

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...

How do the Safe Motherhood Action Groups in Zambia work?

YouTube video by Sara Dada

www.youtube.com

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The Lancet @thelancet.com · Apr 7

🌍✨ 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

Achieving gender justice for global health equity: the Lancet Commission on gender and global health

Achieving gender justice in global health—which we define as encompassing the realisation of universal rights in relation to health equity and gender equality, while also addressing the drivers of gen...

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Kim R. van Daalen @daalenkim.bsky.social · Apr 8

Read the full paper in the @thelancet.bsky.social Regional Health Europe: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Strengthening resilience to emerging vector-borne diseases in Europe: lessons learnt from countries facing endemic transmission

Emerging vector-borne diseases (VBDs) are a major public health concern worldwide. Climate change, environmental degradation and globalisation have led to an expansion in the range of many vectors and...

www.thelancet.com

Kim R. van Daalen @daalenkim.bsky.social · Apr 8

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. ⬇️

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · Apr 7

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.

‘Our health is intrinsically linked to the natural world. Quite simply, no nature, no health’

If you think hospital waiting lists and access to GP care are challenging now, climate change will bring more difficulties

www.irishtimes.com

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Kim R. van Daalen @daalenkim.bsky.social · Mar 25

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

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Kent Buse @kentbuse.bsky.social · Mar 19

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

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Kim R. van Daalen @daalenkim.bsky.social · Mar 19

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...

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Kim R. van Daalen @daalenkim.bsky.social · Mar 17

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

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Kent Buse @kentbuse.bsky.social · Feb 7

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

Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology

The news that on 31 January 2025 the Trump administration instructed scientists employed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw or retract articles from medical and sci...

www.bmj.com

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