Name:
Professor Mireille Toledano
Job Title:
Professor of Paediatric Environmental Epidemiology
Organisation / Company:
Director, Mohn Centre for Children’s Health and Wellbeing School of Public Health, Imperial College London
Biography:
Professor Mireille Toledano is Director of the Mohn Centre for Children’s Health and Wellbeing at Imperial College London and an epidemiologist with wide-ranging interests in the health effects of environmental exposures. She has substantial expertise in leading the design, set-up and coordination of new large cohort studies including BEED, SCAMP and COSMOS.
She also has extensive experience of working with large routine health datasets and spatial epidemiology such as cancer registrations, births, deaths and hospital admissions. Her work in this field has included national studies of adverse birth outcomes and water disinfection by-products, waste incineration, and air and noise pollution, as well as investigations of adult cancers near overhead power lines, and childhood cancers in proximity to mobile phone base stations.
She has been researching cholangiocarcinoma for over two decades and was part of the team that first raised concern over rising rates in the UK and worldwide. Since then, she has led many national studies of cholangiocarcinoma including those showing marked spatial patterns of incidence and geographical differences in treatment.
She is a member of a number of national and international advisory committees, including the Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (COMARE), the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) and the UN FAO/WHO Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR). She is also a past Chair of the European Chapter of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) and currently serves on the Editorial Board of Environmental Epidemiology.