Vanderbloemen Laura

Laura Vanderbloemen is a public health researcher specialising in health equity, youth mental health, community-based participatory research, and the integration of digital and AI approaches into healthcare. She is Director of Impact & Innovation and Senior Lecturer in Public Health at the University of East London, where she leads on research impact strategy, supervises postgraduate research, and leads modules in statistics and health economics. Alongside her current post, she holds an honorary role at Imperial College London, where she co-led a successful national proposal to fund the NIHR Research Design Service and leads multi-disciplinary projects on AI-assisted rehabilitation. Internationally, she served as Principal Investigator at VinUniversity in Hanoi, directing the establishment of Vietnam’s first large-scale (50,000 adults) longitudinal health cohort study in partnership with Vietnam’s largest healthcare provider. Her earlier work with the World Health Organization and Pan American Health Organization focused on vaccine evaluation and regional epidemiological studies across Latin America. She is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and the Higher Education Academy, and she contributes actively to postgraduate supervision and research governance. Her current work is closely aligned with NIHR’s priorities around youth mental health, equity, and the development of scalable, cost-effective interventions with real-world impact.