Environmental Medicine

National and International Research Programmes

• Collaboration with the Faroes Hospital System, Department of Occupational medicine and public health
• Laboratory collaboration within the Trace elements laboratory, founded jointly with Odense University Hospital, Department of Clinical biochemistry and pharmacology 
• Joint funding with Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health, for international studies in environmental epidemiology
• Prospective cohort studies jointly with the Faroese Hospital System: Children´s Health and the Environment in the Faroes (CHEF) 
• Odense Børnekohorte (data on 2500 childrens families in Odense)(Research Leader: Tina Kold Jensen)(Project-CO: Henriette Boye Kyhl)
• University of Bristol (UK): Collaboration on data from the ALSPAC birth cohort to elucidate the possible effects on brain functions, bran structure, and disease risks that can be ascribed to prenatal exposure to methylmercury along with the potential impact of genetic predisposition to such effects
• VITO-Unit Environmental Risk and Health  (Professor Greet Schoeters)
• University of Antwerp - Dept. Biomedical Sciences (Professor Greet Schoeters) and collaboration with Professor Wim Vanden Berghe on epigenetics and environmental exposures (Danish EPA Pesticide Research Program)
• Environmental health analyses of the KRAM study (diet, smoking, alcohol and exercise) (national research programme in Denmark)
• DEMOCOPHES in Denmark (DEMOnstration of a study to COordinate and Perform Human biomonitoring on a European Scale)('Children and the Environment')
• Collaboration with Centre on Endocrine Disrupters (CeHos) at Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen