Exposure

Course goals

At the end of the course students
-    Will understand the key concepts of exposure; 
-    Will understand the benefits and detriments of exposures affecting human, animal and ecosystem / wildlife health
-    Will understand the determinants in the causal pathway from source to internal exposure;
-    Will understand major measurement methods and modelling used in exposure assessment 
-    Will understand the role of omics in  exposure assessment; 
-    Will be able to formulate the differences and similarities between the approaches used for exposure assessment in Toxicology, One Health, and Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology

Content

Period (from - till): 21 September 2026 - 2 October 2026 (BMS_P1_A)

Course description:
This course will provide an overview of the different aspects of exposure sciences, elucidating the similarities and differences between the three specializations. Topics to be discussed will include: Concepts of exposure, Sources and determinants of exposure including fate processes, bioaccumulation, source attribution (air, water, soil, diet, etc.), determinants of exposure, modes of transmission (blood-borne, airborne, foodborne etc), multi-host infectious diseases and infectious disease cycles, co-exposures, Exposure assessment: measurement and modelling, and Omics, in which the different state of the art omics techniques will be discussed, e.g. exposome, microbiome, virome, toxicogenomics and resistome.

Course coordinator:
Inge Wouters

Contact details: education.iras@uu.nl or i.wouters@uu.nl

Registration:
Registration only open to Health and Environment students who will automatically be enrolled and MSc Epidemiology students with the specialisation Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology who can register by contacting MSc.HENV@uu.nl.

Mandatory for students in Master’s programme:
Yes

Optional for students in other GSLS Master’s programme:
Only for MSc Epidemiology students with the specialisation Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology