20 May 2022
13:45 – 14:30 hrs, Room Beam
Virissa Lenters and her colleagues will explain how chemical pollution and more broadly the exposome affect child development and disease susceptibility.
Virissa Lenters is Exposome-NL researcher and co-coordinating the European H2020 AURORA project (2021–2026) on the reproductive and early-life health effects of microplastic exposure and is leading the work package on Risk Assessment. She teaches about epidemiology, prevention, and exposome science and coordinates the Public Health Epidemiology MSc course.
She recently described her research for the Studium Generale public lecture series of Utrecht University: 'How our environment affects our health'.
The environment we live in has a dominant impact on our health. It explains an estimated seventy percent of the chronic disease burden. Where we live, what we eat, how much we exercise, the air we breathe and whom we associate with; all of these environmental factors play a role. The combination of these factors over the life course is called the exposome. There is general (scientific) consensus that understanding more about the exposome will help explain the current burden of disease and that it provides entry points for prevention and ...
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