Environmental Medicine
- Adverse health effects of key environmental pollutants, especially in regard to developmental and reproductive outcomes
- development and validation of biomarkers
- environmental and reproductive epidemiology
- methodology studies in environmental health risk assessment and risk perception
(Projects under each research area can be found under Research Projects)
Available methodologies, techniques and facilities
Our Vision
Is through research, education, and outreach efforts of the highest quality to improve public health by prevention of environmental risk factors
Our goals are
- To ensure a strong professional profile within environmental health research in an international, national, and regional context;
- To focus on population groups and organ systems at increased risk in regard to exposures to environmental chemical during sensitive developmental stages;
- To disseminate information, support skills and inspire motivation through formalised teaching, outreach, and counselling
Our strength is a high level of key environmental health competences:
- Examinations of population groups, especially prospective studies from early development;
- Utilisation of public registries to illuminate exposures to environmental chemicals and related health risks;
- Application and development of biomarkers that reflect environmental exposures, their effects, and mechanisms of action;
- Refinement of research methodologies that will improve the scientific input to risk assessment and application of the precautionary principle
Our values that serve as a prerequisite:
- A dynamic place of work with opportunities to utilise and develop one’s competences;
- Potentials for interdisciplinary collaboration between professional groupings and research units as well as nationally and internationally;
- Emphasis on prevention and sustainability in both science and practice.