Subscribe:
RSS feed
Direct link to personal blog: The Fun Police (www.funpolice.eu)
Browsing All posts tagged under »exposure assessment«
2nd UK & Ireland Exposure Science meeting: Prof Nieuwenhuijsen confirmed as 2nd keynote
It is my great pleasure to announce that Professor Mark Nieuwenhuijsen from the Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) in Barcelona, has been confirmed as the 2nd keynote speaker at the 2nd UK & Ireland Exposure Science meeting in Manchester (March 4th, 2014). Many of you will have come across the work of Prof […]
Looking for a Research Fellow !
November 14, 2013
For one of the new projects I am the PI of here in Manchester, I am looking for a Research Fellow for 3 years, starting asap. Or, in official terminology: A Research Fellow position is available for an outstanding and ambitious epidemiologist or exposure assessment scientist to undertake research in estimation of (historical) occupational radiation […]
Abstract submission for the 2nd UK & Ireland Exposure Science meeting now open!
October 22, 2013
Abstract submission for the 2nd meeting (March 4th in Manchester) is now open and the form can be downloaded from: http://www.coeh.man.ac.uk/ExpSci2014/ Note that the deadline for submission is Monday December 2nd 2013. We welcome abstracts from a diverse range of research disciplines, including measurement methodology, toxicology, epidemiology, ergonomics, risk assessment, public health, and others with expertise […]
A comparison of population air pollution exposure estimation techniques with personal exposure estimates in a pregnant cohort
June 26, 2013
Maybe not as exciting as “real blog posts” (which, btw I hope to have the next one finished soon) but i thought it would be informative to post abstracts of new papers I am involved in, and link to where to full papers can be found, on here as well. So here you go…the first […]
Assessment of Long-term Occupational Pesticide Exposure (balloons again!)
April 10, 2013
Those of you with whom I work more closely, or who I have met at a conference or meeting in the previous year, may have overheard me grumbling about spending most of my time reading various degrees of draft chapters for PhD students‘ theses…. However, the good news is that even though my recent posts […]
UK & Ireland Exposure Science meeting
March 18, 2013
Last week, March 14h, we (Karen Galea and Martie van Tongeren from IOM and I) organised the first UK & Ireland Exposure Science meeting. Set up similar to, and not coincidentally the day after, the 7th UK & Ireland Occupational & Environmental Epidemiology 1-day meeting, we had the plan to start organizing these meetings to […]
Good idea, bad hypothesis: misclassification in cellphone use
August 3, 2012
A comparatively large number of posts on my blog deal with studies on adverse health effects of cell phone use. That’s not a coincidence; there is just a lot to talk about. Take for example a new study in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology that has been online since July 18 (it’s […]
X2012, snapshots days 3 and 4
July 5, 2012
1] Erik Tielemans’ keynote “Advancements in occupational exposure modelling” 2] Mark Stenzel talking about exposure assessment in the GuLF Study 3] The Great Hall at the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh
X2012 – day 1
July 2, 2012
As promised, short notes on the X2012 conference. As (almost) everyone expected, it has been raining all day. That may be one of the reasons that the attendance this first day has been great, although I tend to think it is because of the scientific programme we have put together. Regardless, with nearly 330 attendees […]
X2012 conference on the science of exposure assessment
June 29, 2012
Only 3 days until the X2012 conference starts. Martie van Tongeren, myself, the BOHS and many others have worked hard to organize an exciting programme, and with almost 350 delegates it seems we have succeeded. instead of my normal posts, I plan to post more regular but much shorter posts over the next week covering […]
The danger of exposure to too much stuff
March 2, 2012
So how do we know which exposures are harmful for humans? Obviously, if we, generally by accident, get exposed to extremely high concentrations of some toxic substance and die immediately, or within a very short period after, it is fairly easy to deduce a causal relation. But how about much lower doses, or when the […]
X2012, the 7th International Conference on the Science of Exposure Assessment
December 1, 2011
Because one cannot spam enough, some additional information about the X2012 conference this summer in Edinburgh (and which i am c0-organizing): BOHS is hosting X2012, the 7th International Conference on the Science of Exposure Assessment. This four day international conference will bring together the leading experts who have been instrumental in the development of the […]
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. Or maybe both are just both over the moon…
September 21, 2011
In one of the previous posts I discussed the use of expert-assessment in an attempt to characterize exposure without the need for expensive (both in terms of money but also man (or women)-hours). That seemed to work, but not always and not as good experts would like us to believe. So where does that leave […]
X2012 – 7th International Conference on the Science of Exposure Assessment
September 1, 2011
Although not an actual blog post (I hope to be able to do that within the next 2 weeks), the abstract submission for X2012 has now opened. A conference that, I am convinced, will be of interest to most (if not all) of the people reading this blog. Good Afternoon, X2012: 7th International […]
Experts and Monkeys
June 30, 2011
The assessment of exposure and the estimation of exposure intensities or patterns is an intrinsically difficult exercise. Not only do the levels of exposure differ over time or across space, in many cases the components themselves also change; for example when different sources of specific exposures are turned on or off or in during the formation of […]
Top Posts & Pages
Sense about Science
The Fun Police 
December 12, 2013
1