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The exposome as a driving concept for environmental health research
The Exposome encompasses all environmental exposures humans undergo from conception to death. We review here some promises and challenges of exposome research. The promises of the Exposome concept include first a descriptive component, consisting in assessing exposure patterns. A second (etiologic) promise aims to better understand the possible biological and health effects of environmental exposures. A third and more public health-oriented aim relates to the quantification of the health impact of the exposome and the establishment of a ranking of the population health impacts of all exposures. These issues will be discussed in light of the results of Helix early-life exposome European project.
SPEAKER: Rémy SLAMA, DR Inserm et Professeur attaché à l’ENS-PSL, IBENS (Institut de Biologie de l’ENS), ENS, Paris
Rémy Slama is an environmental epidemiologist specializing in the links between climate change and health. He is a Research Director at Inserm (the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research) and an Affiliated Professor at ENS-PSL, working within CERES and the Department of Biology. He previously held the annual Public Health Chair at the Collège de France (2022). From 2020 to 2024, he led Inserm’s Thematic Institute for Public Health and directed a research team on environmental health at Inserm and the University of Grenoble from 2008 to 2024. His past research has focused on the health effects of the exposome, air pollutants, and endocrine disruptors.
Since spring 2024, he has joined the Institut de Biologie at École normale supérieure to develop a research structure at the intersection of climate change and health, called PARSEC (Paris Research on Health, Environment, and Climate). He holds or has held various expert advisory roles, including with the ERC, Covars (the French Committee for Health Risk Monitoring and Anticipation, 2022–2024), the European Commission’s DG SANTE, Anses, and Santé publique France. He holds a PhD in epidemiology from Université Paris-Sud and is a graduate of École Polytechnique and an agronomy engineer.
This seminar is held within the framework of the Institut Pasteur Mother and Child Health program.
Those interested in discussing with the speaker are requested to contact hafida.fsihi@pasteur.fr