Environmental Medicine
Research areas: Identification and characterization of environmental risk factors which can affect organ functions and disease risks, especially during early development, with the aim of improved prevention.
- Adverse human health effects of environmental chemicals, especially in regard to development and reproduction
- Environmental and reproductive epidemiology
- Development and validation of biomarkers
- Methodological studies of environmental health risk assessment and risk perception
Current research projects
Adverse human health effects of environmental chemicals, especially in regard to development and reproduction
- Mercury-associated neurobehavioral deficits in children (1986, Philippe Grandjean)
- Effects of perinatal endocrine disrupters in children (september 2001, Philippe Grandjean and Tina Kold Jensen)
- Epidemiology of immunotoxicant exposure in children (1999, Philippe Grandjean)
- Prenatal and postnatal exposures to neurotoxic substances and genetic predisposition in the etiology of Parkinson’s disease (januar 2005, Philippe Grandjean)
- Long term health effects of prenatal pesticide exposure (marts 2007, Helle Raun Andersen)
- The effects of reproduction, pregnancy and birth on health later in life (2001, Tina Kold Jensen)
Environmental and reproductive epidemiology
- Effects of azol fungicides on reproductive and thyroid hormones (October 2004, Helle Raun Andersen)
- Effects of drinking water on health - a registry study (March 2005, Tina Kold Jensen and Helle Raun Andersen)
- Public health impact of long-term, low-level mixed element exposure in susceptible population strata (PHIME) (2006, Philippe Grandjean)
Development and validation of biomarkers
- Biomarkers of exposure to trace elements, environmental oestrogens, and oxidants, and antioxidant defence (2000, Philippe Grandjean, Helle Raun Andersen and Flemming Nielsen)
- Percutaneous absorption of pesticider - influence of lag-time and skin reservoir (November 2004, Jesper Bo Nielsen)
- The influence of physico-chemical properties and cofactors on percutaneous penetration and skin deposition of environmental and occupational chemicals (2001, Jesper Bo Nielsen)
Methodological studies of environmental health risk assessment and risk perception
- Risk perception, risk communication and impact of socio-demographic factors on willingness-to-pay for the reduction of health risks (2000, http://www.almen.dk/odense/riskgroup.htm, Jesper Bo Nielsen)
- Impact of the precautionary principle on research and its incorporation into risk assessment with measures of risk perception (2002, Philippe Grandjean)
- Health and Environment Network (HENVINET)(2006, Philippe Grandjean)