IAPah project team

2nd IAPAH Project Advisory Committee Meeting - June 22nd, 2009

Back Row L to R: Dr Sean Semple, Mr Paul Whelan, Ms Sandra Kavanagh, Mr Fintan Hurley, Maurice Mulcahy, Dr Sally Haw, Carole Garden; Front Row L to R: Dr Marie Coggins, Dr Miriam Byrne, Dr Karen Galea. Absent members include Prof Luke Clancy, Dr Bob Maynard, Prof Jon Ayres.

Dr Marie Coggins

Dr. Marie Coggins will act as project coordinator and leader of WP0, the Project Management module of IAPAH. Marie is a lecturer in Occupational Hygiene at the School of Physics, NUIG. She has 10 years experience working in the area of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, working in research, industry and academia. She completed her Ph.D. at the Physics Department NUIG in 2000. Her research thesis focused on measurement of air pollutants in the outdoor environment. Since then she has worked in the Pharmaceutical Industry as an occupational hygienist, where she gained extensive experience in occupational exposure assessment. She has been involved in a number of research projects funded by many bodies most of her research involves measurement of indoor air pollutants and the completion of health based risk assessments. She is also a member of the Environmental and Health Thematic and Health Priority area in the Environmental Change Institute which is located at NUIG.

Dr Sean Semple

Dr Sean Semple will lead WP1, the Exposure Assessment module of the IAPAH project. Sean leads the Human Exposure section of the Department of Environmental & Occupational Medicine (EOM) at the University of Aberdeen. He is involved in a wide range of research projects examining occupational and environmental exposures and their impact on health. He has over 10 years experience as a project manager for a number of multi-centre projects and has close scientific links with other research institutions in the UK and EU. His recent work on the evaluation of the smoke-free legislation in Scotland was part of the CLEAN collaboration which was awarded the POOSH Peter Isaac Award in 2008. Sean’s research has had an increasing interest in measurement of exposure to smoke produced from using biomass fuels for cooking and lighting in less-developed countries including Nepal, India and Malawi. This work also involves collaborations with the University of Liverpool and the University of California, Berkley.

Dr. Karen Galea

Dr Karen Galea will lead WP2, the Health Impact Assessment module of IAPAH.  Karen is a Senior Scientist within the Exposure Assessment Division at the IOM.
She is involved in a wide range of research projects focused on examining occupational and environmental exposures and their impact on human health. She has over 8 years research experience and taken the role of project leader on a number of projects. She has also been actively involved in several projects aimed at evaluating smoke-free legislation throughout the UK and was part of the CLEAN collaboration which was awarded the POOSH Peter Isaac Award in 2008.

Mr Fintan Hurley

Fintan Hurley is an epidemiologist with a background in statistics. He has worked for many years at the IOM in Edinburgh, UK, where he is now Scientific Director, and is active in the IOM’s new Centre for Health Impact Assessment (HIA). Since the early 1990s he has been active in HIA of outdoor air pollution, including the long-term ExternE programme of the European Commission, the HIA Working Group of AIRNET, and the Cost-Benefit Analysis of EC’s flagship Clean Air for Europe (CAFE) Programme. He now leads the EU FP6 Integrated Project HEIMTSA, with 21 partners across Europe, developing HIA methods for a wide range of environmental pollutants and stressors, including indoor air pollution; and the nine-partner EDPHiS collaboration with DEOM Aberdeen and others, using HIA methods in support of the Scottish Government’s Strategic Framework for Environment and Health. Fintan chairs the quantification subgroup QUARK of the UK Committee on the Medical
Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP), and has been a member of various Working Groups on outdoor air pollution and health for WHO, US EPA, EC and other international bodies.

Professor Ayres

Professor Ayres has been researching the effects of outdoor air pollution for the last 25 years both using epidemiology and human exposure studies in the laboratory. His current research addresses the smoking ban in Scotland and England and the effects of biomass smoke exposure.  He is part of the SnIRC collaboration on the health and environmental impacts of nano-materials in conjunction with IOM, and Edinburgh and Napier Universities.  He undertakes research into occupational lung disease in particular airways disease. He chairs the Dept. of Health’s Committee on the Health Effects of Air Pollution (COMEAP), of which he has been a member since its inception in 1991, is Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Pesticides (DEFRA), is a member of the Expert Panel on Air Quality Standards (EPAQS) and of MOD’s MODREC (PPE) ethics committee.

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