Partners
EXPANSE is a five year project that involves 20 academic and non-academic partners located in 14 European countries and the USA.
Barcelona Institute for Global Health
(ISGlobal) Spain
ISGlobal is a cutting-edge institution with capacity to address global public health challenges through research, translation and education. ISGlobal has been a pioneer in both the exposure assessment and epidemiology linking built environment characteristics to health.
Principal Investigator (PI):
Cathryn Tonne
Columbia University
United States of America
The Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health is a world-leading institution at the forefront of public health research, education, and community collaboration.
Principal Investigator (PI):
Prof. Gary Miller
French National Institute of Health and Medical Research
(INSERM) France
INSERM has a dedicated Public Health institute which has a remit encompassing all of the scientific disciplines that contribute to clinical research and public health.
Principal Investigator (PI):
Cyrille Delpierre
Game Solutions Lab b.v.
The Netherlands
The Game Solutions Lab is established in 2017 as an SME powered by both Games for Health Projects and Idee Brouwerij. Owners of Game Solutions Lab have together over thirty years of expertise in the serious game sector, lifestyle interventions and behavioral change.
Principal Investigator (PI):
Jurriaan van Rijswijk
Helmholtz Research Centre for Environmental Health (HMGU)
Germany
The Institute of Epidemiology of the HMGU aims to understand the protective and harmful effects of genes, the environment and lifestyle on human health and disease using population-based and molecular epidemiology approaches.
Principal Investigator (PI):
Prof. Annette Peters
Emory University
United States of America
The department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health is a nationally and internationally recognized center of excellence in preventive medicine, occupational and environmental medicine.
Principal Investigator (PI):
Douglas Walker
Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine
United Kingdom
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine is one of the leading scientific universities in the world. Imperial’s School of Public Health (ISPH) is an organizational leader in public health research.
Principal Investigator (PI):
Marc Chadeau-Hyam
International Agency for Research on Cancer
(IARC) France
IARC is a specialized research institute of the World Health Organization with the mission to coordinate and conduct research on the causes of human cancer, the mechanisms of carcinogenesis, and to develop scientific strategies for cancer prevention and control.
Principal Investigator (PI):
Augustin Scalbert
Karolinska Institute
Sweden
The Institute of Environmental Medicine (IEM), a department at Karolinska Institutet (KI), is an interdisciplinary research organization within the field of Environmental Medicine.
Principal Investigator (PI):
Erik Melén
M2M4ALL (SODAQ)
The Netherlands
SODAQ is the leading Internet of Things (IoT) development company in The Netherlands. SODAQ’s competence lies in the environmental IoT. We create scalable solutions to connect things outdoors.
Principal Investigator (PI):
Jan-Willem Smeenk
Masaryk University
Czechia
The RECETOX Centre is the research institute of Masaryk University focused on the research and education in the area of Environmental sciences. It addresses interactions among chemicals, environment, and biological systems, including consequences at local, regional, and global levels.
Principal Investigator (PI):
Pavel Čupr
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Greece
The Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School focuses on cancer epidemiology, infectious disease epidemiology, environmental & occupational epidemiology and methods.
Principal Investigator (PI):
Prof. Klea Katsouyanni
Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine
Poland
NOFER is a complex research and development institution with activities covering various areas of environmental and occupational health. NOFER has a longstanding experience in performing large-scale studies.
Principal Investigator (PI):
Prof. Kinga Polanska
Regional Health Service Lazio
Italy
The Department of Epidemiology performs high quality epidemiological research in the field of environmental epidemiology, comparative effectiveness and outcome research.
Principal Investigator (PI):
Daniela Porta
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Switzerland
Employees at Swisss TPH work in the fields of infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, society and health, environment and health as well as health systems and interventions.
Principal Investigator (PI):
Prof. Nicole Probst
University of Tartu (UT)
Estonia
The Institute of Genomics (IG) of UT, aims to promote the development of human genetic research, collect information on health issues and genetics of the Estonian population, and implement genomics data into medical practice.
Principal Investigator (PI):
Pekka Keski-Rahkonen
University Medical Center Utrecht (UMC Utrecht)
The Netherlands
The UMC Utrecht is a hospital that is part of Utrecht University. The Ethics of Biomedical Innovation research group has relevant expertise and experience to examine the ethics and governance of the ethical challenges raised by the EXPANSE Project.
Principal Investigator (PI):
Prof. Annelien Bredenoord
Utrecht University (UU)
The Netherlands
The Institute of Risk Assesment Sciences (IRAS) at UU has a strong reputation for producing world class research in environmental exposure science and health.
Principal Investigator (PI):
Prof. Roel Vermeulen
VU University Medical Center Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Research on health behaviours and cardiometabolic health is embedded in the Amsterdam Public Health and Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences research institutes and is renowned for a number of large cohort studies.
Principal Investigator (PI):
Prof. Joline Beulens
Jagiellonian University
Poland
The Jagiellonian University is the oldest higher education institution in Poland and one of the oldest in Europe. Since its very beginning, the Jagiellonian University has been an international institution.
Principal Investigator (PI):
Agnieszka Pac