Michelle C Turner

Michelle C Turner is a Researcher at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Spain, and a Ramón y Cajal Fellow. She serves as Secretary-Treasurer of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) and Co-Leader of the EPHOR mega-cohort. Her work spans large-scale environmental and occupational health studies, including roles at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and WHO committees.

Her research focuses on:

• Environmental and occupational epidemiology
• Air pollution and cancer linkages
• Climate change and worker health
• Exposome analysis
• Radiation exposure in occupational settings

Recent publications analyze:

• Global occupational UV radiation impacts on skin cancer
• Pollution-cancer exposure-response functions
• EU air quality directive revisions
• Radiation exposure across professions in Spain/France

Scientific recognitions include:

• 2023 EPICOH Management Committee election
• 2021 EPICOH Mid-Career Award for occupational epidemiology
• 2021 WHO Expert on Air Pollution and Health

She leads the 5-year Horizon Europe-funded INTERCAMBIO project (2024-2028) studying climate change impacts on worker health. Key collaborations include the OMEGA-NET COST Action (Vice-Chair) and WHO GAPH-TAG Working Group on exposure-response functions.