Where is this all going?

John Cherrie

PDC Session: The exposome and exposure in the workplace

Questions…

�  What do you take from this PDC for your own practice?

Some implications for occupational hygiene… �  We need to become aware of the exposome

paradigm �  Traditional diseases are only part of the problem �  Omics offers new ways to investigate work exposures �  Accuracy and precision is not everything, but tools

need calibration �  Tracking location and behaviour provides new data �  There are confidentiality issues to be resolved �  Citizen science revolution is coming

http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/dert/programs/peph/podcasts/exposome/

NIEHS…

And on YouTube…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeYUHUSIniE&list=PLlo0xQLFI54G04vj-H9VdhwbFBL4ANRZv

Other resources…

�  US National Academy of Science �  http://nas-sites.org/emergingscience/

meetings/exposome/workshop-presentations-the-exposome/

�  NIOSH �  http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/exposome/

�  The Exposome: a primer by Gary Miller �  https://www.elsevier.com/books/the-

exposome/miller/978-0-12-417217-3

Acknowledgement…

The HEALS project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 603946.

Thanks to Sean Semple and Miranda Loh and other colleagues in the HEALS project for their advice and assistance in preparing these talks