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Roel Vermeulen

Director at Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University

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“The first principle of health is life. War is a direct threat to life.” WHO 2000 Wars have shattering impacts on planetary health through the direct effects on all involved and the environments that our health depends on. In times of war public and environmental health progress is destroyed in minutes, ruining years of advancements. Our research group (OHC) at the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences Utrecht University has been dedicated to understanding and preventing environmental impacts on health. We support #ScienceForUkraine and we will be open for academic researchers at a Ukrainian university/institute in the fields of environmental and occupational health, public health, or planetary health for paid internships to continue their research. We offer this as from today, and will continue to support #ScienceForUkraine during the times of post-conflict recovery, which we desperately hope will commence soon! Please e-mail or DM. Utrecht University UMC Utrecht Diergeneeskunde Faculteit #publichealth #environmental #health #internships

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So much looking forward to bring the exposome community together! Together we can make a difference in next gen preventive health! alliance TU/e, WUR, UU, UMC Utrecht (EWUU) Utrecht Science Park Research theme Life Sciences (Utrecht University and UMC Utrecht)

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Join us on 20 May at the Exposome-NL conference and present your work in one of our break-out or poster sessions. Abstract submission deadline is 15 April 2022! https://lnkd.in/eZeRjv6C

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Happy to share the work of Jules Kerckhoffs on mapping air pollution (NO2) in Amsterdam and Copenhagen using Google Street View Cars equipped with high-grade sensors (Google Air View). Using a novel mixed-model land use regression framework we were able to build hyperlocal maps of NO2 concentrations in the City of Amsterdam and Copenhagen. These maps allow to identify local features that would not be found using standard stationary measurement protocols and model approaches. These maps provide actionable information on general and local air pollution sources to improve urban air quality. Gerard Hoek Jibran Khan Zhendong Yuan EXPANSE Exposome-NL Natalie Smailou https://lnkd.in/gNznwGbu

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We started this short course series on the exposome in 2012 and after a hiatus of a few years it is back. With all the recent developments in exposome research the course series will bring the latest in the field covering study designs, measurement techniques and methods with a heavy focus on data analytics. And if you cannot wait to get started check out our MOOC https://lnkd.in/dCzTxgNU. Diergeneeskunde Faculteit Ephor Project EU - on the working life exposome LongITools Project Alexandra Zhernakova Diederick (Rick) E. Grobbee, MD, PhD, FESC Joline Beulens Thomas Hankemeier Mei-Po Kwan Research theme Life Sciences (Utrecht University and UMC Utrecht)

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In 2022 Utrecht University, in collaboration with Imperial College London, will organise the #exposome short course series. The series is divided into three levels: exposome basis, exposome advanced and exposome practice. From 19-22 April 2022 the exposome basis course, titled 'Molecular Epidemiology of Chronic Disease and the Exposome', will be held in Utrecht. Interested to join? Check out the details and full programme here 👇 Sreejita Ghosh, Jelle Vlaanderen Roel Vermeulen, Marc Chadeau-Hyam

Exposome short course series for MSc and PhD students with an interest in…

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Really nice work by our PhD-student Mariana Simões who is studying the influence of agricultural exposures on human health using administrative data. In this study she studied the associations between residential proximity to crops and agricultural pesticides on cause-specific mortality using health records of over 3million people living in non-urbanised areas in The Netherlands. Residential proximity to crops was associated with decreased mortality risks overall. In contrast to the overall trend an increased risk was observed for chronic lower respiratory diseases and proximity to maize cultivation. This association was not explained by living in the vicinity of livestock or by general pesticide use, hinting to specific pesticides or practices in maize cultivation that may lead to the observed increased risk. Diergeneeskunde Faculteit Jovanka Bestebroer Netherlands Centre for One Health (NCOH) Anke Huss RIVM National Institute for Public Health and the Environment https://bit.ly/3Cfpj96

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Really nice work by our PhD-student Mariana Simões who is studying the influence of agricultural exposures on health using administrative data. Previous studies in the NL have indicated associations between residential proximity to livestock farms and respiratory morbidity. We now report, based on the analyses of 4million health records, that living in the vicinity of pig farms is associated with respiratory mortality (i.e chronic lower respiratory diseases). Diergeneeskunde Faculteit Jovanka Bestebroer Netherlands Centre for One Health (NCOH) Utrecht University Infection & Immunity Research UMC Utrecht Lidwien Smit Dick Heederik Anke Huss https://bit.ly/3Cfpj96

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Really nice work by Bernice Scholten on using natural language processing (NLP) combined with automated network assembly to perform data rationalisation for chemical risk assessment and exposome research. A vey useful first step which will be continued in the Horizon Europe partnership for chemcial risk assessment (Parc) which will be launched in a month. Exposome-NL EXPANSE Daniel Oberski Research theme Life Sciences (Utrecht University and UMC Utrecht)

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