EHEN calls for policy action on environmental and health risks
The European Human Exposome Network (EHEN) has released a policy brief urging EU policymakers to take action to address the rising public health crisis caused by pollution, chemicals and environmental degradation. The policy brief highlights key research findings emphasising that environmental factors, from air pollution to chemical exposure, significantly contribute to the burden of non-communicable diseases. It […]
HEAP symposium – Ethics, law and big data
How can the results of exposome research further the right to health for all? And how can this be achieved in an ethical way, respecting the rights of those whose data and tissue are being used? In his contribution to the HEAP symposium highlights series, Evert-Ben Van Veen, a lawyer specialising in health and privacy […]
HEAP symposium – “Biobanking and the exposome”
As part of HEAP\’s \”Symposium Highlights\” series, Kurt Zatloukal, Head of the Diagnostic and Research Center for Molecular BioMedicine, Medical University Graz, and Director of BBMRI.at, Austria, discusses how biobanks could add value to exposome research in a 15-minute presentation. Biobanks have expertise in collecting, preserving and providing access to biosamples, as well as processing […]
TEDx talk – the case for a data driven approach to health policy
The notion of sharing data during public health emergencies is generally accepted, and has been a cornerstone of the COVID-19 pandemic response. But should data sharing be limited to emergencies or a few high-priority threats? We now have the technology to enable near real-time, broad-based, continuous information, and a collaborative framework for data collection, sharing, analysis, […]
The HEAP interview – Ville Pimenoff on data cohorts
We talk to Ville Pimenoff, Senior Research Fellow at Karolinska Institute in Sweden who is the PI of the Finnish population-wise cohort data that will be included in the HEAP informatics platform as part of its testing and pilot phase. Q: Tell us about the cohorts that you are working with A: The Finnish HPV vaccination […]
Pointing the way to ethical, reusable exposome data
The launch of the Data Management Plan at the end of May 2020 is a significant milestone for HEAP. Developed by the team at the Medical University of Graz, Austria, who are leading the delivery of HEAP’s Data Interoperability and Sharing Work Package, the Data Management Plan sets out how the cohort data sourced from wearable […]