The health impact of environmental pollution is researched across disciplines, including the exposure to pollutants differentiated for social groups, the health risk and actual intake of pollutants in the human body, and preventive soft and green solutions to reduce the health risk.
Key expertise
Human biomonitoring: Monitoring of individual human chemical exposures (e.g.in blood) and monitoring at the community level based on sewage analysis.
Health effects of human exposure to a wide range of pollutants including endocrine disruptors, flame retardants and Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) based on analyses of whole genome andepigenome responses
Impact of nature based solutions and ecological behaviour on human health•
Risk perception, risk communication and engagement of socially vulnerable groups (environmental justice)
Research groups
- Biomedische wetenschappen
- Milieu en samenleving
- Epidemiologie en sociale geneeskunde
- Toxicological centre
- Laboratory of Experimental Medicine and Pediatrics