Contributor: Sara Moraca

Sara Moraca ESMH contributorSara Moraca is an award-winning Italian science journalist whose writing focuses on issues related to climate change, ecology and the environment. Her work has been featured in publications such as Nature, Inside Climate News, National Geographic Italy, Wired Italy, and Corriere della Sera. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Bologna and her research focuses on public health and climate change. She has been working as a science communication consultant for universities, institutions and organisations.

Sylvain Sebert, Pollution global Issue

A scientist’s opinion: Interview with Professor Sylvain Sebert about Climate change & Health (exposome)

Professor Sylvain Sebert leads a multicultural team of researchers who study the life-course trajectories to unhealthy ageing via the alteration of cardio-metabolic functions at the Centre for Life Course Health Research of the University of Oulu, Finland. Sebert and his team combine various sources of data from the foetal period until old age through exciting ...

Martine Vrijheid, Pollution global Issue

A scientist’s opinion: Interview with Professor Martine Vrijheid about Climate change & Health (exposome)

Interview with Professor Martine Vrijheid, an environmental epidemiologist and head of the ISGlobal Childhood and Environment Programme. Her research focuses on the impact of environmental exposures on child health and development. Professor Vrijheid coordinated the Horizon 2020 funded HELIX (Human Early Life Exposome) project, spearheading the push for a more holistic exposome-based approach to studying ...

Roel Vermeulen, Pollution global Issue

A scientist’s opinion: Interview with Professor Roel Vermeulen about Climate change & Health (exposome)

Interview with Roel Vermeulen, Professor of Environmental Epidemiology and Exposome Science at Utrecht University and the University Medical Center Utrecht. He is also director of the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS) and the Dutch consortium Exposome-NL, and project coordinator of the EXPANSE project which is part of the European Human Exposome Network. His scientific ...

Pollution global Issue

Studying the exposome: ‘On the front line for people and the planet’

Climate and public health cannot be considered separately. The scientific community is increasingly talking about the need to study the so called exposome (the sum of all environmental factors we are exposed to) with the same level of attention with which the human genome has been studied up to now. A new European science network aims to respond to this multidisciplinary challenge.