Speakers

EXHIBITION SPEAKERS NEWSPAPER PRESENTATIONS

Click here to consult the programme of the HBM4EU Final Conference & Exhibition.

Katrin Prüfig – Moderator

Marike Kolossa-Gehring – German Environment Agency (UBA), Coordinator of HBM4EU

Thomas Jakl – Deputy Director General, Chemicals Policy, Austrian Environment Ministry, HBM4EU Governing Board Chair

Irene Norstedt – Director, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

Cristina De Avila – Head of Sustainable Chemicals Unit, DG Environment, European Commission

Roser Gasol – European Environment Agency (EEA)

Zuhal Demir – Flemish Minister for Justice and Enforcement, Environment and Spatial Development, Energy and Tourism

Zohar Barnett Itzhaki – Ministry of Health, Israel

Pilar Aparico Azcárraga – General Director of Public Health, Spain

Ovnair Sepai – National Hub Coordinator, Principal Toxicologist at UK Health Security Agency

Eva Govarts – Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Belgium

Maria Uhl – Environment Agency Austria

Robert Barouki National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France

Elena Tarroja – National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France

Lisa Melymuk – Masaryk University (MU), Czech Republic

Tamás Szigeti – National Public Health Center (NPHC), Hungary

Wojciech Wasowicz Nofer – Institute of Occupational Medicine (NIOM), Poland

Peter Korytar – DG Environment, European Commission

Shoji Nakayama – Deputy Director, Japan Environment and Children Study

Annie St. Amand – Section Head, National Biomonitoring, Health Canada

Antonia Calafat – US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Dirk Messner – President of the German Environment Agency (UBA)

Liese Gilles – Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Belgium

Marta Esteban López – Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), Spain

Holger Koch – Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine (IPA), Germany

Argelia Castaño – Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), Spain

Jana Klánová – Masaryk University (MU), Czech Republic

Mirjam Luijten – National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Netherlands

Jean-Philippe Antignac – French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE)

Andreas Kortenkamp – Brunel University London (URBUN), UK

Erik Lebret – previously at National Institute of Public Health and the Environmental (RIVM), Netherlands

Fleur van Broekhuizen – European Chemicals Agency

Federica Laguzzi – Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden

Paula Alvito – National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA), Portugal

Maria Silva – National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA), Portugal

Tamar Berman – Ministry of Health, Israel

Greet Schoeters – Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Belgium

Joana Lobo Vicente – European Environment Agency (EEA)

Andromachi Katsonouri – Head, Human Biomonitoring and Control of Industrial Products Laboratory, Cyprus

Tiina Santonen – Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH)

Marieta Fernandez – University of Granada (UGR), Spain

Dimosthenis Sarigiannis – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AU), Greece

Ludek Blaha – Masaryk University (MU), Czech Republic

Hanna Tolonen – Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)

Hans Bruyninckx – Executive Director of the European Environment Agency (EEA)

Ofelia Bercaru – Director, Prioritisation and Integration, European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)

George Kass – Lead expert, European Food Safety Authority

Sylvie Lemoine – Executive Director Product Stewardship, European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC)

Jutta Paulus – Member of the European Parliament

Frida Hök – Senior Policy Advisor, ChemSec

Disclaimer

The HBM4EU project was launched in 2016 with the aim of improving the collective understanding of human exposure to hazardous chemicals and developing HBM as an exposure assessment method. The project had €74m in funding and jointly implemented by 120 partners from 28 participating countries – 24 EU member states plus Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Israel and the European Environment Agency. One of its aims was to ensure the sustainability of HBM in the EU beyond 2021. The project ended in June 2022. The website will not be updated any longer, except the page on peer reviewed publications, but will be online until 2032.