Autor/a:
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Turner, Michelle C.; Vineis, Paolo; Seleiro, Eduardo; Dijmarescu, Michaela; Balshaw, David; Bertollini, Roberto; Chadeau-Hyam, Marc; Gant, Timothy; Gulliver, John; Jeong, Ayoung; Kyrtopoulos, Soterios; Martuzzi, Marco; Miller, Gary W.; Nawrot, Timothy; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Phillips, David H.; Probst-Hensch, Nicole M.; Samet, Jonathan; Vermeulen, Roel; Vlaanderen, Jelle; Vrijheid, Martine; Wild, Christopher P.; Kogevinas, Manolis; EXPOsOMICS Consortium
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Abstract:
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The final meeting of the EXPOsOMICS project "Final Policy
Workshop and Stakeholder Consultation" took place 28-29 March
2017 to present the main results of the project and discuss
their implications both for future research and for regulatory
and policy activities. This paper summarizes presentations and
discussions at the meeting related with the main results and
advances in exposome research achieved through the EXPOsOMICS
project; on other parallel research initiatives on the study of
the exposome in Europe and in the United States and their
complementarity to EXPOsOMICS; lessons learned from these early
studies on the exposome and how they may shape the future of
research on environmental exposure assessment; and finally the
broader implications of exposome research for risk assessment
and policy development on environmental exposures. The main
results of EXPOsOMICS in relation to studies of the external
exposome and internal exposome in relation to both air pollution
and water contaminants were presented as well as new
technologies for environmental health research (adductomics) and
advances in statistical methods. Although exposome research
strengthens the scientific basis for policy development, there
is a need in terms of showing added value for public health to:
improve communication of research results to non-scientific
audiences; target research to the broader landscape of societal
challenges; and draw applicable conclusions. Priorities for
future work include the development and standardization of
methodologies and technologies for assessing the external and
internal exposome, improved data sharing and integration, and
the demonstration of the added value of exposome science over
conventional approaches in answering priority policy questions. |