Dr. Dennerlein is Dean of Boston University Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and Senior Advisory to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Center for Work, Health, and Well-being. Dr. Dennerlein is an internationally respected scholar, researcher, and innovator in the field of occupational safety and health. He has been an active leader and contributor in the development of National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s (NIOSH) Total Worker Health® program. Before joining BU, Dr. Dennerlein was a member of the faculty at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Northeastern University. He is a fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, a member of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and has served on several committees of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. He holds degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Berkeley.
Keynote Title: Building a culture of health: Listening and learning from workers to change the conditions of work
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. Schlünssen is professor of occupational and environmental epidemiology, MD specialised in Occupational Medicine, and deputy head for research and talent at Department of Public Health, Aarhus University. She work 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. Dr Schlünssen has a special interest for generation studies on environmental exposure and subsequent health outcome in future generations.
Dr Schlünssen and her research group collaborate with a large network of national and international researchers and stakeholders and disseminate research results to society and the academic world. As a deputy head of research and talent her focus is to support junior researchers to be able to conduct excellent research in a safe and inspiring environment.
Keynote Title: Health effects of chemical exposures - the broad perspective
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)
Dr. Radu Corneliu Duca is a passionate public health leader and European Registered Toxicologist with dual PhDs in toxicology and chemistry, committed to protecting communities through science-driven action. Over 15+ years, he has led national sanitary protection strategies, directed EU-wide biomonitoring programs as part of HBM4EU and PARC initiatives, and shaped OECD guidance on chemical exposure and human biomonitoring. He has served as Head of Unit Environmental Hygiene and Human Biological Monitoring at the National Laboratory of Luxembourg. Currently, he is Head of Department Health Protection at the Luxembourg Health Directorate.
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).
Keynote Title : Setting up an infrastructural landscape and opening an access to services for human exposome research