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
- Cohorts and methods for environmental and reproductive epidemiology studies
- AAS, HPLC, GC-MS and spectrophotometric methods for biomarker analyses
- In vitro assessment of serum oestrogenicity and other receptor activation
- Neurobehavioural and other tests for assessment of subclinical changes
- In vitro model for percutaneous penetration through human skin
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Link til Forskningsinfrastruktur (http://www.sdu.dk/om_sdu/fakulteterne/sundhedsvidenskab/forskning/forskningsinfrastruktur.aspx)
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.