Are there unique chrono-windows of metabolism in.... Read More

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

The interface of de-synchronized circadian clock and exposures to xenobiotics would lead to adverse biological response and its resolution.... Read More

Using the ORGANIKO trial, we .... Read More

Results showed the higher number of personal air and skin temperature peaks observed in indoors compared with outdoor environments during .... Read More

We conducted a narrative review using an exposome approach to explore short-term changes in the childrens exposome profile (<18 years old) associated with the COVID-19 measures.... Read More

Our lab's new publication in EClinical Medicine (The Lancet.... Read More

New collaborative work of our lab published in environment international. It highlights the use of a comprehensive systems-based approach of the exposome for better capturing the population-wide and individual-level variability in... Read More

The Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health (CII) of the Cyprus University of Technology, along with other European universities and institutes, published the results of their pan-European analysis on iodine deficiency... Read More

The TEMP trial highlighted the potentially beneficial effect of a short-term stay (mean stay: 7 days) in the mountainous Troodos communities (mean altitude: 880 meters) during summer on leptin levels of healthy adults... Read More

[EL] Ανέκαθεν η υγεία, το υπέρτατο αυτό αγαθό ιεραρχείται συνήθως πάνω από την οικονομική ευημερία του καθενός, γιατί συμβάλλει τα μέγιστα σε μια καλή ποιότητα ζωής... Read More

Dr. Thibaut Delplancke, postdoctoral fellow in our Water and Health Lab was awarded a travel grant to participate in the IARC International Agency for Research on Cancer’s practical course in Metabolomics and Bioinformatics... Read More

We were honored to have the Cyprus Minister of Health Constantinos Ioannou - Minister of Health touring the Water & Health Lab. Read More

Our viewpoint on obesity and type II diabetes prevention programs for Cyprus published recently in the journal of Phileleftheros... Read More

The EXPOSOGAS team will participate in the annual conference of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Three research works focusing on the human exposome and its applications, including a work on the urban exposome will be presented... Read More

After hard work, we are happy to celebrate the successful PhD defense by Xanthi Andrianou on the urban exposome. Read More

[EL] Σύμφωνα με τα τελευταία στοιχεία που παρουσίασε ο Παγκόσμιος Οργανισμός Υγείας (ΠΟΥ), η Κύπρος κατατάσσεται πρώτη μεταξύ όλων των Ευρωπαϊκών χωρών με τα υψηλότερα ποσοστά παιδικής παχυσαρκίας. Η εν λόγω πρωτιά είναι ανησυχητική, αφού πέραν από τις σημαντικές επιπτώσεις στην υγεία και ευεξία των παιδιών, επιβαρύνεται και ο κρατικός υπολογισμός της υγείας… Read More

[EL] Η 3η Παγκύπρια Ημερίδα για τη Δημόσια Υγεία αφορά την παρουσίαση πρόσφατων ερευνητικών αποτελεσμάτων για τον πληθυσμό της Κύπρου και θα πραγματοποιηθεί την Πέμπτη 21 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017, στη Λεμεσό και στις εγκαταστάσεις του Τεχνολογικού Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου (ΤΠΚ). Read More

Our latest work was just published in the Journal of Proteome Research (ACS Publications). The work assessed the use of untargeted metabolomics tools in coupling external environmental exposures to disinfection by-products (trihalomethanes) with the disease status in urine samples obtained from a case-control type II diabetes subpopulation group in Cyprus. Read More

The Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health, which is an official member of The Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), will offer the MS in Environmental Health in the coming Academic Year. Read More

One (1) PhD position is available in the research group of the Water and Health Laboratory of the Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health at the Cyprus University of Technology. The successful candidate will be trained on key thematic concepts of the exposome, i.e. the holistic representation of all those environmental, lifestyle and behavioral factors related to the development of chronic diseases with special emphasis on endocrine disorders. Read More

[EL] Εκθέσεις σε χημικά μπορεί να προκαλέσουν αλλαγές στη λειτουργία του θυρεοειδούς, επηρεάζοντας τα επίπεδα των ορμονών. Τα χημικά αυτά ονομάζονται ενδοκρινικοί διαταράκτες και μια υποκατηγορία αυτών είναι τα χημικά που, ειδικότερα, διαταράσσουν την εύρυθμη λειτουργία του θυρεοειδούς αδένα. Read More

[EL] Η 2η Ημερίδα Δημόσιας Υγείας πραγματοποιήθηκε τη Δευτέρα 19 Σεπτεμβρίου στο Τεχνολογικό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου με μεγάλη επιτυχία. Στην εκδήλωση παραβρέθηκε και εκφώνησε λόγο ο Υπουργός Υγείας Δρ. Γ. Παμπορίδης. Εκ μέρους του εργαστηρίου μας παρουσιάστηκαν τα αποτελέσματα της μελέτης για την έκθεση σε χημικά όπως η δισφαινόλη Α (bisphenol A) και τους πιθανούς συσχετισμούς με διαταραχές στο θυρεοειδή αδένα καθώς και οι πρώτες μετρήσεις από τα επίπεδα ιωδίου σε κυπριακό πληθυσμό που δείχνουν ήπια ανεπάρκεια (στον πληθυσμό που μελετήθηκε) Read More

Within the framework of interconnection and cooperation actions between universities and municipalities of Thessaloniki and Limassol, the Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health within the Cyprus University of Technology and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki invite you ... Read More

On Wednesday, December 16, the Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health (CII) in collaboration with the Public Health School of Harvard University, part of the Cyprus University of Technology, and the Development Organisation TALOS ... Read More

The 1st Mediterranean Science Festival took place from 3rd to 6th of December at the Lanitis Carob Mill Complex in Limassol and it was organized by the educational organization SciCo-Cyprus, the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation, along with the Cyprus Youth Organization... Read More

Checking the agreements established between the University in which I am studying and other universities for Erasmus+ internships, the Water and Health Lab was the one that I found to be more interesting for me. In my study program on Environmental Sciences in Madrid, I had only one course on Environmental Health and my practicum was focused on Ecotoxicology. I thought that is a good idea to have some complementary experience in the field of Environmental Health, so I decided to apply for this placement ... Read More

The Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health in association with the Harvard School of Public Health (CII) together with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai of New York, USA, and the University Medical Center of Groningen, The Netherlands, just published a review article in the international journal Environment International (Impact Factor IF: 5.56) ... Read More

The National Symposium of THYROCHEM was co-organized by the Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health and the Bank of Cyprus Oncology Center in Nicosia, Cyprus... Read More

The Cyprus Institute along with the Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health (CII) at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and the King Saud University in Saudi Arabia published a joint research article in the journal Nature, which is the world’s most highly cited interdisciplinary science journal... Read More

Within the framework of the THYROCHEM project, the Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health in association with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health along with the Thyroid Cancer Unit of Bank of Cyprus Oncology Centre organize an info day on “Thyroid nodules and cancer”... Read More

More than 90 people participated in the public info day of ORGANIKO LIFE+ on “Organic products: Climate change mitigation and health benefits” at Limassol City Hall, on Wednesday, September 16th 2015. The event was organized by the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), the Agricultural Research Institute, the Department of Environment, along with the European Commission Representation in Cyprus, Heart Cyprus and Europe Direct Limassol, under the framework of the ORGANIKO LIFE+ project... Read More

As part of our new project ORGANIKO LIFE+ an open to the public info day will take place at the premises of Limassol municipality on September 16, 2015. The discussions will revolve about organic products, climate mitigation and health. The event will be in Greek... Read More

The Water and Health Lab was in Tartu, Estonia the last week of August attending a workshop on biobanks that focused on logistics, data access and management. Our lab is supported by the BBMRI-LPC for a project on exposure to brominated disinfection by-products and prospective metabolic alterations... Read More

The CII in association with Harvard School of Public Health and the Department of Environmental Science and Technology of CUT organized a lecture by Professor Nicholas A. Ashford yesterday (June 15th) for the challenges of placing sustainable development in the core of policy during this challenging era of economic and societal disruption. The lecture was followed by a lively discussion on sustainable development in Cyprus... Read More

The CII in association with Harvard School of Public Health and the Department of Environmental Science and Technology of CUT organized a lecture by Professor Nicholas A. Ashford yesterday (June 15th) for the challenges of placing sustainable development in the core of policy during this challenging era of economic and societal disruption. The lecture was followed by a lively discussion on sustainable development in Cyprus... Read More

World Health Day 2015 is dedicated to food safety and the Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health with the Municipality of Limassol organized a Food Safety event on Thursday April 02, 2015 at the Conference Room of the Limassol Municipality Building (33 Archbishop Kyprianou, 3600 Limassol)... Read More

On the occasion of World Water Day that is celebrated every year on March 22, Dr. Konstantinos C. Makris and Dr. George Botsaris, both faculty members of the Cyprus University of Technology, analyzed and interpreted the published drinking water quality data of Health Services across the island of Cyprus for the first half of 2014... Read More

#WorldWaterDay on 22nd of March (unwater.org/worldwaterday) and the Water and Health Lab was at Agios Ioannis Lyceum in Limassol, where we spoke about the importance of water as well as the characteristics of water management and consumption in Cyprus. The students’ ‪#‎WaterIs‬messages, questions and comments were the core of the discussion. We are looking forward to meet them again!... Read More

The 1st Public Health Day in Cyprus is organized by the Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health in association with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (CII). The event was open to the public and all the latest research findings of CII were presented. Some of the key research topics that will be discussed in the event are: asthma and allergies in children, genetic predisposition and alcohol consumption, health effects from desert storms, smoking in Cypriot youth, human exposures to disinfection by-products and the assessment of evidence in medical research... Read More

Within the framework of the EACEA AQUASYN project, the Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health in association with the Harvard School of Public Health and the development organization Talos, organized on 11/03/2015, an educational seminar on the subject of ‘Bottled Water Quality Management: From Bottling to Consumption’... Read More

Dr James Shine, faculty within the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health shared his views on storm water management and urban design in the lecture that was organized by CII. The lecture was followed by a discussion with the representatives of stakeholders such as Water Board. At the beginning of the lecture Mr Theodoulidis of the Nicosia Water Board presented Dr Shine with a book on the history of water in Cyprus... Read More

On the occasion of the World Cancer Day the Water and Health Lab was at Neapolis Gymnasium in Limassol where we addressed the issues of cancer risk and prevention. The students’ questions and comments led a very lively discussion. We look forward to meeting them again... Read More

A workshop on the Safety and Health aspects of Natural Gas operations in the Eastern Mediterranean with particular emphasis on the cases of Cyprus and Israel took place on the 13th of November at the Andreas Themistocleous Building of the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), in Limassol, Cyprus, and it was organized by the Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health (CII)... Read More