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Environmental and Occupational Health Lab
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The lab studies how the environment and work affect health, using both epidemiology and experiments.
AboutAbout the lab
Thinking about health through the environment and work.
The Environmental and Occupational Health Lab studies how the environment and work affect human health.
In environmental health, the lab investigates how heavy metals and other substances affect health, using both experiments and epidemiology.
In occupational health and occupational health science, the lab conducts epidemiological research on how work affects health, and also studies the relationship between work and people from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Key terms
- Epidemiology
- The study of the relationship between how diseases occur and their causes, examined statistically in populations
- Occupational health
- A field of medicine that protects the health of working people and improves workplace environments
- Heavy metals
- Metals with high density, such as cadmium and lead. Accumulation in the body can harm health
ResearchResearch themes
In environmental health and in occupational health and occupational health science, the lab investigates how the environment and work affect human health, using both experiments and epidemiology.
*Illustrative imageEnvironmental Health
The lab conducts both experimental and epidemiological research on how heavy metals and other substances affect human health.
*Illustrative imageOccupational Health and Occupational Health Science
The lab conducts epidemiological research on how work affects health. It also carries out interdisciplinary research on the relationship between work and people.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Environmental and Occupational Health Lab are faculty, technical staff, administrative assistants, and graduate students.As of 2022
- ProfessorYasushi Suwazono
- Associate ProfessorKazuhiro Nogawa
- Assistant ProfessorYuka Watanabe
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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: “Mt. Fuji and Keiyo petrochemical complex” Nanashinodensyaku / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Environmental Health: “Microplastiques contamination environnementale PLASTIC ATLAS” Lamiot (translation en->fr), From : The PLASTIC ATLAS 2019 is jointly published by Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin, Germany, and Break Free From Plastic (Art direction and infographics: Janine Sack, Sabine Hecher, Lena Appenzeller) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Occupational Health and Occupational Health Science: “HK TST East Hong Kong Science Museum Occupational Safety & Health Council OSHC Jack figure Occupational Safety & Health Council workplace Porters labour at work Jan-2012” Boboworkplace / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Psychiatry and Neuroscience Lab): “Neuroscience 2” Priit Tiganik / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Bioenvironmental Medicine Lab): “Bisphenol A” Edgar181 / Public domain (cropped)
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- Related lab (Tumor Pathology Lab): “Scanning electron microscope - UFCH JH (2020) 01” Tadeáš Bednarz / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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