Health effects of air pollution in the Danish Nurse Cohort and Danish Nationwide Administrative Cohort: An overview with Prof. Zorana Jovanovic Andersen
Please join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and the Department of Environmental Health for a talk by Zorana Jovanovic Andersen, PhD, of the University of Copenhagen. Dr. Andersen will discuss “Health effects of air pollution in the Danish Nurse Cohort and Danish Nationwide Administrative Cohort: An overview.”
This event will be held via Zoom. Register here
About the speaker
Zorana Jovanovic Andersen is a Professor in Environmental Epidemiology at the Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, and Former Chair of the European Respiratory Society Environment and Health Committee. Her main research areas include health effects of air pollution on respiratory disease, including asthma in children and adults, COPD, lung cancer, and acute lower respiratory infections and COVID-19. Her other areas of research include air pollution and cardiometabolic diseases, dementia, and mental health, as well as climate change and health, health effects of road traffic noise, environmental exposures and aging, interaction between air pollution and physical activity, capacity building in air pollution in environmental epidemiology in Serbia and Western Balkans, among others. Prof. Andersen is passionate about advocacy on clean air and translation of knowledge from research on health effects of air pollution to policy makers at local, national, European and global level, as an active member of the Expert group on Air Pollution in Copenhagen Municipality, Danish Council for Disease Prevention, Policy Committee of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, International Network on Policy in Epidemiology, and WHO Global Air Pollution and Health Technical Advisory Group. She received the ERS mid-career Gold-Medal in Epidemiology and Environment in 2022.
