The human exposome refers to the many environmental exposures experienced throughout our lifetime, starting from conception and pregnancy. The exposome approach promotes a fundamental shift in studying environmental impacts on health, moving research from a ‘one exposure, one disease’ approach, to one that is more comprehensive and consistent with the hundreds of exposures most humans now experience.
Early life stages are a key period of our development during which we are highly susceptible to environmental damage, often with life-long health consequences. This makes this period an important starting point for addressing the exposome and an ideal time window for implementing cost-effective preventive actions and policies aimed at reducing adverse environmental exposures.
In this half-hour EDC Strategies Partnership webinar, Dr. Rémy Slama will explore the environmental factors that are most likely to affect children’s health and will present approaches allowing us to rank the impact of these factors. Dr. Slama is a researcher with the ATHLETE research project.
This webinar will be moderated by Genon Jensen, Director of Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL).
About ATHLETE:
ATHLETE (Advancing Tools for Human Early Life course Exposome Research and Translation) is a European-funded project that aims to better understand and prevent health effects from the exposure to numerous environmental hazards and their mixtures, starting from the earliest stages of life. The project brings together 24 partner organisations from 12 European countries and one from the United States. ATHLETE aims to develop a human exposome toolbox that can be used to evaluate the effects of multiple environmental exposures in individuals, as well as in communities, to design policies and interventions to prevent or reduce their health impact.
Featured Speaker
Rémy Slama, PhD is an Environmental epidemiologist and senior investigator at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM). Rémy works at the Institute of Biology of the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris (IBENS), a joint research center from ENS-PSL, Inserm and CNRS, on the PARSEC initiative, aiming to develop research on the nexus between climate change and human health. Rémy is a former member of the Scientific Committee for Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks (SCHEER) of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG Sante).
This webinar is hosted by the EDC Strategies Partnership, which is co-chaired by Sharyle Patton (Commonweal Biomonitoring Resource Center), Jerry Heindel and Sarah Howard (Environmental Health Sciences' Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies, HEEDS), Génon Jensen (Health and Environment Alliance, HEAL), and Rachel Massey (Collaborative for Health and Environment, CHE). To see a full list of past calls and webinars related to EDCs and listen to or view recordings, please visit our partnership page.