Jenny Selander

Jenny Selander

Principal Researcher | Docent
Telephone: +46852480029
Visiting address: Nobels väg 13, 17177 Stockholm
Postal address: C6 Institutet för miljömedicin, C6 Arbetsmedicin Selander, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • I am an Associate Professor in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. I am a Research Group Leader and the Head of Unit of the Unit of Occupational Medicine at the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet.

     

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Research

  • I study joint effects of exposure in Occupational and Environmental settings
    in relation to health effects. My focus however, is on noise, air pollution,
    vibrations and chemicals in the work and living environment in relation to
    health. Outcome measures I study include reproductive outcomes,
    cardiovascular disease and cancer. I am also involved in risk assessment,
    mainly regarding noise exposure and health.
    *Current projects*
    /*EU-projects:*/
    EU: Horizon HORIZON-ENVHLTH, (start jan 2024) Intercambio project, WP2 lead
    EU: Horizon 2020: Exposome (start jan 2020), Equal-life project, WP7
    lead, https://www.equal-life.eu/en
    EU: Horizon 2020: Exposome (start jan 2020), EPHOR
    project. https://www.ephor-project.eu/
    /*Nordic projects:*/
    NORDSOUND, Occupational and residential noise exposure and health
    https://www.cancer.dk/nordsound/about-nordsound/),
    NOCCA - Occupational exposures and cancer in the Nordic Collaboration
    NOCCA https://astra.cancer.fi/NOCCA/ .
    /*National projects:*/
    AFA, occupational exposures and cardiovascular disease,
    https://fou.afaforsakring.se/sv/the-research-archive/ett-arbetsliv-utan-hjart--och-karlsjukdom),
    FORTE - program grant - A sustaniable working life.
    FORTE - Occupational exposures during pregnancy and neurodevelopmental
    disorders in children.

Teaching

  • I am the Program director for the Master program in Work and Health at
    Karolinska Institutet. I teach Occupational and Environmental Medicine and
    Epidemiology and are a Course leader of the Worklife and health course 7, 5
    credits within the program. I have more then 400 hours of teaching behind me
    and I have initiated and developed the major transformation of the master
    program into a full-digital program with new pedagogical approaches.

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Grants

Employments

  • Principal Researcher, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 2021-

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2020
  • Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 2010

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