How does working life affect health and disease in Europe?
Professor Vivi Schlünssen from Aarhus University is part of an international research consortium, which has received a total of DKK 80 million from the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme to investigate how exposure to e.g. chemicals or light at work affects European citizen’s health status.
In her part of the project, Vivi Schlünssen will look into how factors at the work place including light, dust and chemicals affect the development of acute and chronic lung diseases such as asthma and COPD. An important part of the project involves looking into how exposure early in working life affects the health of the lungs later in life. She is particularly interested in how organic dust from e.g. agricultural work has an effect on respiratory diseases and allergies.
Vivi Schlünssen’s research focuses on particles in the air, at home and at work, and on what this means both for the health of people in the labour market and also for the population as a whole. Her vision is to prevent diseases in the general population.
With the grant from the EU, Vivi Schlünssen and her international research colleagues are putting our working life and its importance for health and disease on the agenda in a European perspective. The project is the first of its kind on an international scale.
Vivi Schlünssen has received a total of DKK 8.5 million for her part of the European research project.
Contact
Professor Vivi Schlünssen
Aarhus University, Department of Public Health
Mobile: (+45) 2899 2499
Email: vs@ph.au.dk