Dr Klea Katsouyanni

Klea Katsouyanni is a Professor in Medical Statistics and Epidemiology in the University of Athens Medical School. Her research focuses on the health effects of environmental stressors, mainly outdoor air pollution. She has been the Coordinator of a EU network which provided European wide results on the short-term effects of air pollution (the APHEA network) and participated in projects investigating effects of exposure to air pollution, gene-environment interactions, air pollution effects in sensitive sub-populations, health impact assessment. She is also interested in other environmental exposures and their health effects such as noise and climate related exposures and the interactions between these exposures. Currently she is involved in the investigation of long-term effects of air pollution, the effects of ozone on children’s respiratory health, the effects of source-specific particles on health (such as forest fires and desert dust), and the short-term effects of PM2.5 and ultrafine particles in Europe. She has been or is a member of several advisory committees (E.C., W.H.O. etc) in environmental health topics. She has more than 150 publications in peer reviewed journals which have been cited more than 9500 times. In 2006 she became the recipient of the ISEE John Goldsmith award for sustained and outstanding contributions to the knowledge and practice of Environmental Epidemiology