Michelle Turner

Michelle C Turner is an Associate Research Professor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain and Ramón y Cajal Fellow. Her primary research interests include environmental and occupational epidemiology, in particular in relation to cancer. She has actively conducted research in both North America and Europe. She has lead several large-scale investigations into the mortality health effects of long-term ambient air pollution exposure. She was elected as Vice-Chair of the 40-country European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action “Coordination and Harmonization of European Occupational Cohorts (OMEGA-NET)” network. She is co-Leader of the Exposome Project for Health and Occupational Research (EPHOR) mega-cohort, working towards large-scale pooling of European cohort studies. She served as Visiting Scientist (2019-2021) in the Monographs Program of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). She currently serves as Secretary-Treasurer of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE). Most recently, she has lead the establishment of the new Horizon Europe INTERCAMBIO project as Coordinator, which seeks to promote occupational health in the context of climate change.