Anaïs Hasenböhler, Winner of the Ferenc Bojan Young Investigator Award of the Public Health Conference 2025
The Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team (EREN-CRESS / Inserm / Inrae / Université Sorbonne Paris Nord / Université Paris Cité / Cnam) took part in the 18th edition of the European Public Health Conference (European Public Health – EPH), held in Helsinki.
On this occasion, Anaïs Hasenböhler, a doctoral student in nutritional epidemiology within the EREN-CRESS team, received the Ferenc Bojan Young Investigator Award, standing out among more than 3,000 participants. This distinction highlights the excellence of her work on food preservatives and their associations with cardiovascular diseases and hypertension within the prospective NutriNet-Santé cohort.
Conducted as part of the ADDITIVES project, coordinated by Prof. Mathilde Touvier and funded by the ERC, INCa and the DGS, this study assessed the associations between cumulative exposure to preservatives and the health of more than 112,000 participants in the NutriNet-Santé cohort. It is the first study worldwide to analyse in such detail the specific impact of preservative additives on cardiovascular health. The precision, rigor and quality of this research largely contributed to this recognition.
These findings illustrate the essential role of nutritional epidemiology in identifying preventable risk factors, strengthening prevention and public health recommendations, and informing consumers about substances they ingest daily.
This award, which honors young researchers, commemorates the Hungarian physician Ferenc Bojan, who tragically died at the age of 51. He worked to integrate the Hungarian Society of Public Health into the European Public Health Association (EUPHA), organizer of the EPH, and later became its president. For more than 10 years, this distinction has rewarded, at each edition, a young researcher under the age of 30 for the quality of their research work and presentation during the conference.
But this was not the only study highlighted by the team during this 18th edition of the EPH. In total, eight studies were presented by EREN-CRESS over three days. All abstracts are published in the European Journal of Public Health (Supplement 4) and can be accessed through this link, as well as on the NutriNet-Santé study website:
https://etude-nutrinet-sante.fr/link/zone/33-NutriNet-Sant%C3%A9
Congratulations to Anaïs and to all participants in the 18th edition of the EPH for their contributions, and a big thank you to all members of EREN-CRESS whose collaboration made this recognition in Helsinki possible.
We warmly thank all contributors to this study, as well as all NutriNauts for their commitment and loyalty. Their active participation enables major advances in nutritional and public health research, which are recognized, valued and rewarded at both national and international levels.
Thank you all!
By Anaïs Hasenböhler
Photo credit: European Public Health Conference
