Educators:
- Chair: Sven Twardziok (HD-HuB)
- Presenter: Elli Polemiti & Marcel Jentsch (HD-HuB)
Date:
24.06.26 - 10:00 CEST
Location:
Online -> Join us for the upcoming CLUES Seminar
Contents:
The exposome paradigm, the totality of environmental exposures experienced by an individual throughout their lifespan, has fundamentally transformed environmental health research. Rather than studying isolated exposures (e.g., air pollution, occupational hazards), the exposome framework acknowledges the complex, cumulative, and synergistic interactions among physical, chemical, social, and occupational environmental factors that collectively determine health outcomes.
However, a critical infrastructure gap persists. Data on air quality, water contamination, chemical exposures, neighborhood characteristics, and socioeconomic factors exist across multiple institutions and geographies, but lack common standards or integration frameworks. This fragmentation severely limits large-scale exposome research and prevents systematic investigation of complex exposure-health relationships.
CLUES (Climate, Urbanicity, Environment and Society, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-73048-6) was developed to address this gap. As an established geospatial framework, CLUES facilitates the integration of diverse environmental exposures with health research data at the individual level. In this seminar, we will present the CLUES pipeline and demonstrate how environmental exposure data from open-access sources can be systematically linked to individual-level health data in a privacy-compliant way.
Learning goals:
Demonstrate how environmental exposure data from open-access sources can be systematically linked to individual-level health data in a privacy-compliant way using the CLUES framework.
Prerequisites:
None
Keywords:
Environment, Health, Cohorts, Linkage, Exposome
Tools:
CLUES (https://github.com/BIH-DMBS/CLUES)
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