At the end of the course students
- Will understand the key concepts of exposure;
- Will understand the benefits and detriments of exposures affecting human, animal and ecosystem / wildlife health
- Will understand the determinants in the causal pathway from source to internal exposure;
- Will understand major measurement methods and modelling used in exposure assessment
- Will understand the role of omics in exposure assessment;
- Will be able to formulate the differences and similarities between the approaches used for exposure assessment in Toxicology, One Health, and Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology
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This course will provide an overview of the different aspects of exposure sciences, elucidating the similarities and differences between the three specializations. Topics to be discussed will include: Concepts of exposure, Sources and determinants of exposure
including fate processes, bioaccumulation, source attribution (air, water, soil, diet, etc.), determinants of exposure, modes of transmission (blood-borne, airborne, foodborne etc), multi-host infectious diseases and infectious disease cycles, co-exposures, Exposure assessment: measurement and modelling, and Omics, in which the different state of the art omics techniques will be discussed, e.g. exposome, microbiome, virome, toxicogenomics and resistome.
Registration only open to Health and Environment students who will automatically be enrolled and MSc Epidemiology students with the specialisation Environmental Epidemiology who can register by contacting the course coordinator.
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