Health involved in new interdisciplinary centre
The Novo Nordisk Foundation is donating approximately DKK 60 million towards the establishment of an interdisciplinary research centre in the field of environment and health. Professor Torben Sigsgaard from the Department of Public Health is one of the initiators behind the new centre, which will conduct research into new knowledge about the importance of the environment for public health.
A research consortium including several participants from Aarhus University has received a multi-million kroner grant towards the Big Data Centre for Environment and Health. The overall objective of the centre is to achieve a better understanding of the relationship between the environment and health. For example, the researchers involved will examine whether disease is the result of isolated cases of high-risk exposure to harmful conditions, or whether it is to a higher degree a result of slow accumulation over a lifetime that is exacerbated by the effect of combined environmental impacts.
The centre brings together experts from environmental science, computer science, epidemiology and medicine, and is supported by an international team of Big Data specialists. It will be anchored at Science & Technology where Professor Clive Sabre from the Department of Environmental Science is the coordinator. Torben Sigsgaard participates in his capacity of environmental and occupational physician specialising in the health effects of environmental impacts. He will also be a member of the management team at the new centre.
Contact
Professor, PhD Torben Sigsgaard
Aarhus University, Department of Public Health
Mobile: (+45) 2899 2426
Email: ts@ph.au.dk 1