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Human biomonitoring
and Metabolomics protocols
Developing and applying novel human biomonitoring for biomarkers of exposure/effect and implementing agnostic metabolomics protocols.
Population Health Studies
Designing population health studies and executing them in the field
Population Health Data
Processing and analyzing population health data.
Public Awareness
Communicating and disseminating health risks to the public and policy makers.
HOW WE DO IT
The Water and Health Lab research agenda is built upon the framework of the human exposome, i.e., the totality of all environmental exposures occurring in one’s lifetime.The W&H Lab team has recently joined the concept of the urban exposome, i.e., the continuous spatiotemporal surveillance/monitoring of quantitative and qualitative indicators associated with the urban external and internal domains that shape up the quality of life and the health of urban populations, using small city areas, i.e. neighborhoods, quarters, or smaller administrative districts, as the point of reference.
History of the Lab
The W&H lab was established in 2008 and took its name, because of a strategic focus of the CII on water and health issues that were historically present for the island. However, over the years, it became evident that the environmental determinants of chronic disease may be found in multiple compartments, such as in both drinking-water, and showering water, food, air, dust, or soil, etc. Thus, the comprehensive characterization of environmental exposures towards the improved understanding of the chronic disease process require the integration of all involved sources and pathways in contact with the human being. Oral ingestion of water is not the sole route of exposure to chemical or microbiological stressors that impact human health. For example, inhalation and dermal uptake are important routes of exposure to water contaminants via a suite of common water use activities (i.e. cooking, showering, cleaning, etc).
The W&H Lab team holds two unique characteristics:
i) being capable of generating its own biomarker data using state of the art instrumentation available in its analytic facilities
ii) in-house processing and analyzing own-generated population health data. The scientific hypotheses are tested generating either observational or experimental human datasets that are designed and executed by the Water and Health Lab team along with its strategic partners from CII and from other academic institutions in Europe and in the USA.
Research with Impact
Latest News
This was a pesticide-focused children's study in Cyprus aligned with the methodology and tools used in the HBM4EU project.... Read More
Our team along with two innovation companies (LELANTUS and PHOEBE) and the Department of Electrical Engineering of CUT published the results of a school population representative.... Read More