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Environmental Health Sciences Lab
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A lab that studies how chemicals around us and the home environment affect children's health.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring the link between everyday environments and health.
The Environmental Health Sciences Lab conducts epidemiological research on how familiar environments affect people's health.
It focuses in particular on chemicals in the environment, and clarifies their associations with allergies, growth, and puberty in children and in the people who live in those environments.
In collaboration with the Hokkaido University Center for Environmental and Health Sciences, the lab works on projects such as a birth cohort study in which mothers and children in Hokkaido take part.
The lab welcomes people from diverse backgrounds, whether in the sciences or the humanities.
Key terms
- Epidemiology
- The science of studying large numbers of people to clarify the relationship between diseases or health conditions and the factors that may cause them
- Birth cohort study
- A study that follows the same group of children from before birth and examines changes in their growth and health over a long period
- Sick building syndrome
- A condition in which symptoms such as headaches and sore throats occur because of chemicals released from building materials and furniture in the home
NewsLab news
Recruiting students for the graduate school common course "Sustainable Health and Environment"
A special research student received the SNRN Poster Award at ISES-ISEE 2025
Prof. Ikeda received the 2024 Hokkaido University Yoshie Katsurada Award
Prof. Ikeda received the Environmental Science and Technology Excellence in Review Award 2023
A paper on the Hokkaido Study was accepted by Science of The Total Environment
ResearchResearch themes
The lab uses epidemiological methods to study how the environment affects people's health. It aims to produce scientific evidence that identifies harmful environments and removes health hazards, and that makes use of factors that promote health.
*Illustrative imageBirth cohort of children
This is the Hokkaido Study, a birth cohort study that began in Hokkaido in 2001. The lab investigates the associations between chemical exposure starting in the womb and, after birth, physical growth, allergies, and puberty, and links the findings to efforts to reduce risks for children.
*Illustrative imageIndoor environment and health
Focusing on the air in the homes where people spend much of their day, the lab has clarified the relationships between chemicals and mite allergens and complaints of sick building syndrome and allergies. Based on these results, as a member of a Health, Labour and Welfare Sciences Research group, the lab produced a consultation manual for sick building syndrome.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Environmental Health Sciences Lab consist of faculty, postdoctoral and visiting researchers, doctoral and master's students, fourth-year undergraduates, and administrative assistants.As of 2026
- ProfessorAtsuko Ikeda
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Japanese living by Emile Bremmer is licensed under CC BY 2.0” Emile B from Europe / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Birth cohort of children: “Sole of foot of an infant held between the middle finger and the ring finger of an adult hand for size comparison” Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Indoor environment and health: “House dust mite (Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus)” Gilles San Martin from Namur, Belgium / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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