Environmental Exposures Across the Life Course: Methodological Innovations, Novel Applications and Implications for Risk and Equity

Dear Colleagues,

Life course exposure science and epidemiology aims to study exposures and their effects on health across the life course, considering exposures as far back as gestation and even in prior generations. Advances in biobanks and omics promote the measurement of various biomarkers, improving the understanding of biological mechanisms and growing the availability of geospatial and other datasets relevant to a very diverse set of stressors and mediators that include personal, family, occupational, environmental and socioeconomic factors. Life course exposure science and epidemiology applications are increasingly recognized as providing insights to understanding, predicting and potentially preventing chronic diseases such as hypertension and cancer.  They also show great promise for advancing the understanding of many other health endpoints, as well as disease trajectory and survival. Rigorous techniques are needed to address key issues and better quantify and validate exposures throughout the life course, to identify and confirm if these exposures are causally related to disease, and to translate predictions and lessons learned to improve health and prevent disease at the population level. This Special Issue focuses on methodological innovations and applications of life course exposure science and epidemiology. We also invite contributions where life course techniques are applied to assess population risk and equity implications.  

Prof. Dr. Stuart Batterman
Guest Editor

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