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 […]
Holding up a mirror to everyday chemicals
Can researchers measure harmful effects from consumer chemicals by tracking the products we buy? Is it possible to trace a link from someone’s purchase history to their health? This is the question that the HEAP team from Statens Serum Institut (SSI) have set out to explore, using data from the Mypurchases cohort. In this study, […]
The “Consumer purchase data” exposome
Consumer Purchase Data (CPD) from Loyalty programs and digital receipts are emerging as a promising route to assessing the effect of everyday products on our health. Could this “consumer purchase data exposome” lead to novel insights into our lifestyle’s impact on health and disease, and provide a basis for future prevention? In September 2023, HEAP […]
New insights into the HPV virus
A scientific study from HEAP researchers at Karolinska Institutet and the University of Oulu reveals that gender-neutral HPV vaccination is the best way to achieve community-level immune protection and to eradicate vaccine-targeted oncogenic HPVs. The study, published in the journal Cell Host & Microbe, analysed cohort data from the community-randomised Finnish vaccination trial, and found that […]
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 […]
How personal exposome monitors could change healthcare
A HEAP abstract presented at the EHEN Scientific Meeting 2023 in Leuven, Belgium. By capturing and analysing the bacteria, virus and fungi that surround us on a daily basis, wearable sensors could provide personalised predictions of how likely we are to develop certain diseases, or to provide insights to ways we could safeguard our health. […]