Léna is a Master’s student in Global Health at the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences of Maastricht University in the Netherlands. She is also a European Public Health professional and received her BSc degree in which she focused on risks of arboviral disease spread in light in Europe of the changing climate.

Her line of research is in Planetary Health in an urban context, in which she explores the environmental damage and risk to human health and, in her master’s project, she is researching the inclusion and implementation of nature-based solutions as social projects addressing loneliness.

Lena is passionate about the outdoors and exploring ways to balance environmental, human and animal health through building more resilient and sustainable ways of life.