NEWS & EVENTS
We provide an overview of publications, events, video’s and Blogs to which EXPANSE researchers contributed.
Decoding the exposome, the biggest influencer on health
This is the story of how researchers in Utrecht are starting to systematically sequence the environmental factors influencing our health – mapping out the outside world as well as the miniature worlds existing, for instance, in our intestinal tracts. Decoding life. One block at a time.
6-10 September 2021 – International Summer School on Advanced Methods in Global Health
ISGlobal has organised a 5-day, full time online summer school on advanced methods in global health. The online ISGlobal Summer School proposes a unique interdisciplinary teaching program, organized in six different modules among which participants can choose.
7 September 2021 – Exposome MOOC
On 7 September 2021 Utrecht University and the Dutch consortium Exposome-NL will start again with the Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) “The Exposome – cracking the science about what makes us sick.”
Project Air View shares hyperlocal map of air quality in Amsterdam
A so-called Google Air View Car, fitted with advanced air quality equipment by Utrecht University, measured the air quality on every single street in Amsterdam several times during a period of two years. After six million measurements, the Project Air View team, shared the final map.
11 June 2021 – EHEN conference
“Decoding the exposome: the biggest influencer on health” took place on Friday 11th June 2021. The conference programme included three keynote presentations, two panel discussions and a number of break-out outs, enabling participants to hear from each other of the nine EHEN projects.
Climate and our health cannot be considered separately
The European Parliament published a new ESMH article, which explains nicely why the European Human Exposome Network advocated for a ‘sysyem’vision, which would allow us to study environmental factors and genetic factors along the course of an individual’s life.
“Exposome” – a new field, a new journal
Oxford University Press has officially launched the journal ‘Exposome’. Editor-in-chief is EXPANSE researcher Gary Miller from from Columbia University. Never miss the latest content and sign up for email alerts or learn more about the submission process and requirements.
Join us as a postdoctoral researcher in environmental epidemiology
Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? We are looking for a Postdoctoral researcher in environmental epidemiology to strenghten our team at Karolinska Institutet.
Blog on air quality and COVID-19
Blog on air quality and covid-19 Brabant (a province in the south of the Netherlands) and North Italy were not only focal points of COVID-19, in both areas the air quality is also relatively poor. A connection is quickly made. But is that justified, asks professor...
Succesful online launch of EXPANSE
Online launch expanse On March 11 & 12 the virtual launch of EXPANSE took place. Designer Hjalmar Haagsman from de Betekenaar made an illustration, in which he highlighted all seven work packages of EXPANSE. It nicely illustrates how the EXPANSE project aims to...