"Employment is a major determinant of health and healthy ageing"
Dr Susan Peters works as epidemiologist and exposure scientist at the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, where she is leading the Occupational Health group.
Research focus: exposure assessment in occupational epidemiology
Her major research interests are exposure assessment science and chronic disease epidemiology. The focus of her research activities are external causes of chronic diseases, such as cancer, neurodegenerative and respiratory diseases. With her expertise on exposure assessment methods in occupational epidemiology she aims to contribute to improve global working conditions and health.
On-going research projects
- LEXCES: national expert centre on occupational diseases
- EPHOR: Exposome Project for Health and Occupational Research
- NeuroEPIC: Risk factors for ALS and Parkinson's disease in the prospective EPIC cohort
- OBO-2: Associations between exposure to pesticides and health effects
- PD-PEST: Parkinson鈥檚 Disease 鈥� Preventing Emergence of Symptoms by environmental Toxicants identification
- OMEGA-Net: Network on the Coordination and Harmonization of European Occupational Cohorts
- SYNERGY: pooled analysis of European case-control studies on the interaction of occupational carcinogens in the development of lung cancer
- AsiaLymph: international hospital-based case-control study of lymphoma among Chinese in Eastern Asia
- OPERAS: automated job coding using artificial intelligence
- JEMs: Development of Job-Exposure Matrices which can be applied to general population studies
- VHP4Safety: Virtual Human Platform for Safety Assessment
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