Mini-symposia
Explore the mini-symposia taking place at EPICOH 2026
Algorithmic Management as an Emerging Occupational Exposure
Session lead same as listed below.
| 1. | Translating research to practice: the example of ALGOSH | Carin Håkansta, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden |
| 2. | Intervening in algorithmic management: findings from a review of available solutions to improve worker health and well-being | Virginia Gunn, Cape Breton University, NS, Canada & Karolinska Institutet, Sweden |
| 3. | The effects of algorithmic management on occupational safety and health: a mixed methods case study in logistics | Ruben Lind, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden |
| 4. | Algorithmic Management in Managerial Work: Prevalence and Reported Work Environment Implications in a Large Union-Based Survey | Pille Strauss, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden |
| 5. | Measuring Novel Occupational Exposures in Epidemiology: Lessons from Algorithmic Management | Nuria Matilla-Santander, ISGlobal, Spain |
Circular economy: occupational health in the waste management sector
Session lead(s):
Susana Viegas, National School of Public Health, Portugal
Karin Broberg, Lund University, Sweden
| 1. | A policy framework for decent green jobs: socio-legal aspects of the working environment in waste management | Sara Svensson, Halmstad University, Sweden |
| 2. | E-waste recycling workers’ exposure to chemicals and related health risks | Tiina Santonen, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health |
| 3. | Occupational exposure to micro- and nanoplastics and plastic-related chemicals in recycling workers: The SafePlasticWaste study | Malin Engfeldt, Lund University, Sweden |
| 4. | Pulmonary function and inflammatory biomarkers in Swedish metal recycling industry workers: a report from the cross-sectional GreenMetalWaste study | Robert Linder, Lund University, Sweden |
| 5. | Co-creation implementation and evaluation in occupational health research: a case study of the recycling industry. | Lode Godderis, KU Leuven, Belgium & Christopher Mathieu, Lund University |
Crossing Borders in Migrants’ Health and Work
Session lead(s):
Begoña Martínez-Jarreta, Zaragoza University, Spain
Lutgart Braeckman, Ghent University, Belgium
Rafael de la Hoz, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Lode Godderis, KU Leuven, Belgium
| 1. | Labour market disadvantages of persons with a migration background in Belgium: A systematic review | Louise Devos, Ghent University, Belgium |
| 2. | Strengthening the Occupational Health of Migrant Workers Through Human Sentinel Surveillance Platfrom | Emine Aktas, KU Leuven, Belgium |
| 3. | Characteristics and longitudinal trajectories of immigrant workers who participated in the World Trade Center recovery | Rafael de la Hoz, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA |
| 4. | Occupational injury due to accidents trends in native-born Swedes and immigrants, Sweden 2003–2020 | Emelie Thern, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden |
Evaluating the impact of occupational and environmental health hazard evaluations and epidemiological research on policies to prevent disease: Methods and case-studies
Session lead(s):
Ruth M. Lunn, NIH, USA
Mary Schubauer-Berigan, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
| 1. | Impact analysis of occupational hazard assessments on policy decision-making: An approach and recommendations for occupational epidemiology | Suhril Mehta, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA |
| 2. | Evaluating short-term and long-term policy impacts for cancer hazard identification: Two case studies from the IARC Monographs | Mary Schubauer-Berigan, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), France |
| 3. | How do health hazard assessments play a role in risk assessment for the occupational setting? Two examples from the Netherlands | Susan Peters, Utrecht University, the Netherlands |
| 4. | Impact of etiological epidemiological studies: case example of the NIOSH ethylene oxide cohort. | Kaitlin Kelly-Reif, ational Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, USA |
Intervention studies to promote mental and physical health in changing working environments due to climate change, sustainable work practices, and in green jobs: first findings from the EU-INTERCAMBIO project
Session lead:
Michelle Turner, ISGlobal, Spain
| 1. | Introduction to the EU-INTERCAMBIO project | Michelle Turner, ISGlobal, Spain |
| 2. | Occupational heat exposure and outdoor construction workers: an intervention study | Sara Lasuncion, ISGlobal, Spain |
| 3. | The impact of environmentally sustainable workplace interventions on healthcare workers’ health and working conditions: a natural experiment | Marije Koks, Erasmus University Medical Center, the Netherlands |
| 4. | Effect of eco-driving assistance on bus drivers’ stress: A pseudo-randomized controlled trial in a Swiss public transit company | Irina Guseva Canu,University of Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 5. | Skin contamination in wind turbine blade manufacturing workers: An intervention study | Alexander W. Gorny, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark |
| 6. | InterCambio: Exposure and health in the waste management sector | Karin Broberg, Lund University, Sweden |
Mechanistic Science for Prevention in an Era of Complex and Emerging Exposures
Session lead(s):
Pavreen Bhatti, BC Cancer, Canada
Karin Broberg, Lund University, Sweden
| 1. | A biomarker-based framework for assessing exposure, biological mechanisms, and their implications for risk reduction in firefighting training | Maria Helena Guerra Andersen, The National Research Centre for the Working Envronment, Denmark |
| 2. | Occupational exposure to critical raw materials is associated with altered expression of circulating non-coding RNA in waste recycling workers | Anja Stajnko, Lund University, Sweden |
| 3. | Assessing occupational cancer hazards from complex mixtures using mechanistic markers of effect | Kristian Dreij, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden |
| 4. | Biomarkers of Effect as Tools for Risk Assessment and Risk Communication | Susana Viegas, National School of Public Health, Public Health Research Centre, Portugal |
Military occupational exposures and cancer: limitations and opportunities
Session lead:
Kaitlin Kelly-Reif, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), USA
| 1. | Military veterans at Manhattan Project sites: Occupational exposures and cancer | David Richardson, University of California, USA |
| 2. | All-cause and cancer-specific mortality among US personnel conducting radiological clean-up work as part of the Enewetak Atoll Clean-up Project | Jessica Rinsky, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA |
| 3. | Limitations and opportunities for the use of death certificates to study cancer mortality in military populations | Candice Johnson, Michigan State University, USA |
Navigating Nordic workplaces: the state of knowledge on organization-level psychosocial interventions
Session lead(s) same as listed below.
| 1. | Organization-level psychosocial interventions in Finland | Svetlana Solovieva, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland |
| 2. | Organization-level psychosocial interventions in Denmark | Birgit August, The National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark |
| 3. | Organization-level psychosocial interventions in Norway | Margrethe Bjørnstad, National Institute of Occupational Health, Norway |
| 4. | Organization-level psychosocial interventions in Sweden | Gun Johansson, Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Region Stockholm), Karolinska Institutet, Sweden |
| 5. | A reflective discussion of the evidence for organisation-level psychosocial interventions in four Nordic countries | Caleb Leduc, University College Cork, Ireland |
Occupational Exposures during Pregnancy and Health Effects in the mother and child
Session lead(s):
Karin Sørig Hougaard, National Institute of Public Health, Denmark
Jenny Selander, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
| 1. | Relative risks and excess fractions of adverse pregnancy outcomes across maternal occupation during pregnancy: nationwide register cohort studies | Karin Sørig Hougaard, National Institute of Public Health, Denmark |
| 2. | Parental Occupational Exposure to Chemicals and Particles and Childhood ADHD and ASD of Offspring: A Population-based Study from Sweden | Fan Wu, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden |
| 3. | The maternal occupational exposome during pregnancy and risk of autoimmune dis-eases in offspring (EXPO-AID) | Mette Møller Dornfeldt, University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 4. | Developing a Comprehensive Risk Assessment Tool for Occupational Hazards in Pregnancy | Karin Grahn, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden |
Occupational Cancer Patterns in the Nordic Countries: New Insights From 60 Years of NOCCA Follow‑Up
Session lead(s) same as listed below.
| 1. | Sixty Years of Occupational Cancer in the Nordic Countries: What Has Changed? | Jan Ivar Martinsen, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway |
| 2. | Occupational Cancer Patterns in the Nordic Countries: New Insights From 60 Years of NOCCA Follow‑Up | Johnni Hansen, Danish Cancer Society, Denmark |
| 3. | NOCCA-NEW: Expanding the NOCCA consortium to include Estonia | Marcin W Wojewodzi, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway |
| 4. | Occupation and Mesothelioma Incidence in the Nordic Countries in 1961–2020 | Tomas Tanskanen, Institute for Statistical and Epidemiological, Finland |
Occupational Lung Cancer: New opportunities to intervene through enhanced surveillance and screening
Session lead:
Sara De Matteis, University of Turin, Italy
| 1. | The epidemiological evidence on occupational lung cancer: the SYNERGY project | Ann Olsson, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) |
| 2. | The importance of occupational cancer and carcinogen surveillance for lung cancer prevention | Paul Demers, Occupational Cancer Research Centre, Ontario Health, Canada |
| 3. | Empirical evidence of occupational lung cancer screening success | Stewen Markowitz, City University of New York (CUNY), USA |
| 4. | Implementation of occupational exposure assessment in lung cancer screening: first evidence from an Italian programme. | Sara De Matteis, University of Turin, Italy |
| 5. | Probability of causation in individual workers: considering uncertainty in the exposure response relation | Dick Heederik, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands |
The Practice of Occupational Epidemiology – are field methods and data collection being neglected? Should primary data collection be rehabilitated?
Session lead(s):
Vikki Ho, University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM), Canada
Sabrina Gravel, Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST), Canada
France Labrèche, IRSST and Dept of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Montreal, Canada
| 1. | The practice of occupational epidemiology – a personal view, from a post-industrial perspective | Martie Van Tongeren, University of Manchester, UK |
| 2. | Opportunities to improve occupational data collection in questionnaires | Melissa Friesen, National Cancer Institute (NCI), USA |
| 3. | Lessons learned on merging the Norwegian Offshore Petroleum Workers cohort and the Heliport cohort for more detailed occupational exposure assessment | Jo S Stenehjem, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway |
| 4. | Field-based methods for remote and in-person environmental and biological sample collection in two U.S. firefighter cohorts | Alberto J. Caban-Martinez, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, USA |
Important dates
4-17 May 2026 – Late-Breaking abstract submission opens
27 May 2026 – Deadline Early Bird
24-27 August 2026 – Conference dates
Contact us
Conference Secretariat:
Academic Conferences
Email: EPICOH2026@akademikonferens.se
Phone: +46 18 67 10 34 or +46 18 67 10 03
Local Organiser, Karolinska Institutet
Jenny Selander, chair
Maria Albin
Theo Bodin
Emma Brulin
Daniel Falkstedt
Katarina Kjellberg
Kevin Skogh
Miranda Beck
Professional Congress Organiser
