InChildHealth meeting in Lisbon

Over 40 members of the InChildHealth consortium convened in Lisbon, Portugal for the hybrid consortium meeting held in Lisbon, Portugal. During the week a lot of brainstorming and discussion went into adding the final touches to the sampling strategy for the Tier0 and Tier1 sampling campaigns, and reviewing the standard operating procedures (SOPs) for sampling. This meeting was hosted at …

Meet the IPL team

Did you know that H&TRC – Health and Technology Research Center has a massive expertise in microbiologic agents exposure, mainly in indoor air environmental, as well as, occupational environments? These four researchers – Carla Viegas, Marina Almeida-Silva, Edna Ribeiro and Liliana Aranha Caetano – will collaborate in several WP from the InChildHealth Project and also in IDEAL Cluster.

Meet the CSEM team

CSEM (Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique) is a Swiss Research and Technology Organisation. It creates value through future innovative solution for health monitoring. CSEM is active in two major technological developments for the consortium. Wearable Sensors Stephan Dasen, project manager and communication systems engineer, together with a team of highly skilled engineers and technicians, provides wearable sensors allowing to …

Meet the PI of IPL

Carla Viegas is the Principal investigator for H&TRC – Health and Technology Research Center, Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Politécnico de Lisboa.

New Publication

Modelling approaches to particle deposition and clearance in the human respiratory tract Click here to access the full list of InChildHealth publications

Meet the Aalto team

Aalto University (Finland) is the leading organization of the InChildHealth consortium. The Aalto Team is directly contributing to source exposure identification and the field campaign (WP2), developing mitigation strategies (WP4), citizen of science (WP6), and communication (WP7). Professor Heidi Salonen is the consortium leader of the InChildHealth Project. She overviews the smooth proceedings of this project.  Tuija Heikura is the …

New publication

The Representativeness of Outdoor Particulate Matter Concentrations for Estimating Personal Dose and Health Risk Assessment of School Children in Lisbon Click here to access the full list of InChildHealth publications

InChildHealth meeting in Chania

The project partners met in Chania on the 27-29th of March 2023 to discuss about the epidemiology campaigns and sampling procedures for the field campaigns. The meeting was hosted by Professor Mihalis Lazaridis and his team from the Technical University of Crete (TUC).

Visit of NCSR “DEMOKRITOS”

While attending the IDEAL cluster meeting in Athens we were invited to visit our partner research team and facility at NCSR “DEMOKRITOS”​. Prof. Heidi Salonen (Aalto University) leader of the InChildHealth project and Dr. Emmanuelle Castagnoli attended the visit hosted by Dr. Lila Diapouli and Dr. Kostas Eleftheriadis from the Aerosol Group of the Environmental Radioactivity Laboratory. Their state-of-the-art laboratory …