DrBianca van Bavel

Bianca van Bavel is an Ad Astra Fellow | Assistant Professor in Climate Change and Health with the School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science. Her research centres on climate actions that protect health and improve the resilience of health systems to the impacts of climate change. Bianca's work is motivated by the synthesis and communication of evidence for decision-making. She has worked closely with the Adaptation and Resilience Working Group of the HSE Climate Action Strategy, the UK Health Security Agency, and UK Met Office to produce and communicate evidence for climate action. She was a contributing author to the 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), her research has been presented at the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP) and used as evidence in the Fourth UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA4).

Previously, Bianca has worked as a Research Fellow with the University of Galway as well as with the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures at the University of Leeds where she also completed her PhD. She holds an MSc in Global Health from Trinity College Dublin and a BSc in Biology with a double major in Medical Anthropology from McGill University, Montréal, Canada.