Health Environmental Risk Assessment

The team is multidisciplinary, gathering competences in environmental/occupational epidemiology, environmental toxicology, biology and exposure/analytical sciences.

Major research axes
  • Environmental epidemiology
    This axis relies on the PARIS birth cohort follow-up and investigates the natural course of allergic/respiratory diseases and their association with lifestyle and indoor/outdoor environment in childhood.

  • Occupational epidemiology
    Echoing PARIS cohort research, this axis aims to study health effects of transport professionals’ exposure to air pollutants. In addition, it produces knowledge on occupational allergy and assess the effectiveness of public policies, through national and international networks.

  • Environmental toxicology
    To study the biological plausibility of epidemiological findings, the team develops in vitro models to assess cellular and molecular effects related to air pollutants.

Information

  • Pr. Isabelle Momas
    Director of the team

  • Contact
    Denis Basse, administrative assistant
    denis.basse@inserm.fr

Major projects

PARIS14-TRAP

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Health impact of traffic related air pollution (TRAP) in teenagers from the PARIS birth cohort
Funded by the French Research Agency (ANR)

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Project PUF-TAXIS

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Exposure to ultrafine particles and black carbon of Paris taxi drivers: determinants of exposure and impact on respiratory health
Funded by the French environmental and energy management agency (ADEME)

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TRIPLER

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Particulate matter being a great public health concern, particularly in respiratory health, cellular and molecular impact of exposure to Particulate Matter PM2.5 from various sources, industrial or traffic is assessed on reconstituted nasal epithelium, in an adapted in vitro model.

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FUMITOX

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Particulate matter being a great public health concern, particularly in respiratory health, cellular and molecular impact of exposure to particulate matter originating from fumigants (ANR ASTRID – FUMITOX project), is assessed on reconstituted nasal epithelium, in an adapted in vitro model.

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Other links
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MeDALL – Mechanisms of the Development of ALLergy

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Birthcohorts.net: link to the PARIS cohort web page

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Portail Epidémiologie France – Health databases: link to the PARIS cohort web page

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