“From Information to Action” – The HEAP Symposium 2024
IARC hosted international exposome researchers for the final HEAP project Symposium – from Information to Action,
“From Information to Action” – announcing the final HEAP Symposium
Talks and insights on exposome research infrastructures and data, public health ethics, governance of research projects, and engagement with research participants. \”Humanity and the Environment: Moving Exposome Research from Information to Action\” The final HEAP Symposium, hosted by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) on-line and at the IARC Nouveau Centre building in […]
Results from the first ever public survey on the exposome
The first 100 responses from the “Your Exposome” citizen science quiz are in! Launched in December 2023, this 5-minute, on-line quiz aimed to understand ordinary people’s concerns about the effect of the environment on their health, and to gather feedback on exposome research topics. Click to download the results so far . Air pollution and […]
Your Exposome – a quick quiz for citizen scientists
Test your knowledge of the exposome! Exposome research needs the support and participation of members of the public. But has the average person in the street heard of the exposome? And when it comes to the environment and its impact on health, what are the things that matter most to people? How concerned are they […]
The latest publications from the HEAP project
The first half of 2023 has seen HEAP publications on a wide range of topics, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), tools to help researchers ensure their data is FAIR, some surprising insights into epigenetic changes caused by the HPV virus in cervical cancer patients, and an original approach to understanding how to communicate the exposome concept, […]
Save the date. The First International Consumer Purchase Data Symposium. 27th September 2023
HEAP Consortia partner Statens Serum Institut (SSI) is hosting a Consumer Purchase Data and Health (CPD) Symposium on Wednesday, 27th September 2023, from 12:30-17:00 CEST, to be held in Copenhagen and online. With topics ranging from practical uses of CPD via outbreak investigations to chemical exposures, and nutrition, the symposium will touch upon the vast […]
Bring Your Own Data – the story so far
News from BYOD#3 Bring Your Own Data (BYOD) workshops are the engine of the HEAP project, and are essential to its mission to develop a secure and scalable informatics platform to analyse large scientific datasets. The BYOD#3, held in Stockholm in November 2022, provided a collaborative working space for researchers to test a range of […]
FInal episode of “Swamped?” – The Time Machine….
Faced with an algorithm that can’t be commercialised, and patient data that can’t be reused for a new study because the consent forms were badly designed, Data Gator resorts to desperate measures… Meanwhile, FAIR frog completes their Data Management Survival Guide with the help of legal expert Evert-Ben Van Veen, and gets some more practical […]
A database dilemma… Episode 4 of “Swamped?”
Our heroes embark on a new research project, and Data Gator is on the brink of a ground-breaking discovery! But is it all too good to be true? Enter our HEAP researcher Chiara, who shares tips on managing her scientific data and introduces Gator to standardised case report forms, metadata catalogues and unique researcher identifiers. […]
What’s on the agenda of BYOD#3?
What’s on the agenda of the HEAP BYOD#3? To prepare for the workshop, attendees have uploaded data and analysis pipelines to the Hopsworks informatics platform. The data sources are: Cervical Cancer Screening Cohort (Karolinska Institute) Finnish Maternity Cohort (University of Oulu) HPV Vaccination Cohort (Tampere University Hospital) Consumer cohort (Statens Serum Institute) Wearable Data Collection […]