Dr. Dennerlein is currently Dean of Boston University Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences( USA). He has spent nearly three decades as an internationally respected scholar, researcher, and innovator in the field of occupational safety and health – primarily in ergonomics, where his federally-funded research investigates interventions to improve worker safety, health, and well-being.
Dr. Dennerlein has been an active leader and contributor in the development of NIOSH’s Total Worker Health® Program, which NIOSH defines as policies, programs, and practices that integrate safety protection and health promotion efforts to create safe and healthy workplace environments that advance worker well-being. He is a Senior Advisor to the Center for Work, Health, and Well-being at the Harvard Chan School, one of the ten Centers of Excellence for Total Worker Health®.
He is member of the International Commission of Occupational Health, and a founding member of the Society for Total Worker Health™. He has published more than 200 books, book chapters, and journal articles on occupational safety and ergonomics.
Keynote Title: Total Worker Health: From Risk to Resilience
Dr. Godderis is Full Professor of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology at the Faculty of Medicine at KU Leuven. He is CEO of IDEWE, the biggest Belgian External Service for Prevention and Protection at Work.
His research, which is linked to the research unit ‘Environment and Health, focuses on the impact of work on health by unravelling the underlying mechanism and the reverse: how health can affect work (dis)ability.
Internationally, prof. Godderis is involved in a leading role in several international projects such as, SC1-BHC-28-2019 Exposome Project for Health and Occupational Research (EPHOR) and HBM4EU Science and Policy for a Healthy Future (https://www.hbm4eu.eu/). He is also the current chair of Modernet, an international network for development of techniques for discovering trends in work-related diseases and tracing new and emerging risks. Lastly, prof. Godderis is also a management committee member of EU COST action Omega-Net.
Keynote Title: Bridging universities, hospitals and the workplace: The Human Sentinel Surveillance (tbc)
Dr. Schulunssun is professor of occupational and environmental epidemiology and deputy head for research at Department of Public Health, at Aarhus University (Denmark).
As a specialist in occupational and environmental medicine, she works with the interplay between environment and health. Her main research areas are respiratory diseases, allergy and exposure assessment – mainly within the public health and the occupational field. She has more than 280 journal papers published.
Dr. El Jaafari is full Professor at the Faculty of Sciences – Moulay Ismail University of Meknes (Morocco).
He is the head of the Human Epidemiology and Environmental Health Research team. As an expert in environmental health, he has initiated several research projects in Morocco to understand the interplay between exposomics and human health, and the role of epigenetics. He has coordinated several international projects.
Keynote Title: Paysage Africain de la Santé Environnementale : des données à l'action (tbc)
Department Health Protection at Luxembourg Health Directorate, Luxembourg
Keynote Title: Tracking the Invisible using Human Biomonitoring
Dr. KLÁNOVÁ is a professor of environmental chemistry at Masaryk University, and a director of RECETOX (www.recetox.muni.cz), the European Centre of Excellence in Environmental Health Sciences. She leads the national research infrastructure (MONET monitoring networks, CELSPAC population cohorts and biobanks, accredited chemical, biological and toxicological laboratories, GENASIS environmental information systems), and since 2018 also the European research infrastructure on human exposome (EIRENE) prioritized in the 2021 Update of the ESFRI Roadmap. She closely collaborates with WHO and UNEP in building capacities for a global assessment of toxic exposures and leads the GEO Initiative GOS4POPs (Global Observation System for Persistent Organic Pollutants).