The Health and Environment Alliance organises a webinar on the impact of pesticides on human health on the occasion of the Pesticide Action Week 2025. HEAL will be joined by Nadia Cerioli from the European Environment Agency and Dr. Sylvain Chamot from the Regional Center for Occupational and Environmental Diseases of Hauts-de-France who will present their work on the topic.
Formerly head of the pesticides sector at the Italian Ministry of the Environment, she has always been passionate about the environment and its protection, both in her studies and in her work.
After graduating in Environmental Toxicology and Environmental Sciences, she gained extensive work experience in environmental protection. She has worked in this field for more than 20 years and her varied experience has given her a broad perspective on environmental issues. She moved from water laboratory activities to assessing the impact of chemicals and pesticides, with experience in project management and remediation of polluted sites. She has a strong expertise in ecotoxicity and environmental fate assessment of pesticides and their sustainable use to protect human health and the environment.
Laboratoire Péritox, Perinatality & Toxic Risks (UMR_I 01) ; Picardie Jules Verne University (UPJV)/French National Institute for the Industrial Environment and Risks (INERIS)
Dr. Chamot is a university hospital practitioner in occupational medicine and head of the Centre Régional de Pathologies Professionnelles et Environnementales des Hauts-de-France (Hauts-de-France Regional Centre for Occupational and Environmental Pathologies) for the Amiens site at the CHU Amiens-Picardie. He is a researcher at the PéiriTox – Perinatal and toxic risk laboratory, a joint research unit of the Université de Picardie Jules Verne and INERIS. Dr. Chamot co-created the first ‘pesticides and paediatric pathologies’ consultation in France as part of the creation of the compensation fund for pesticide victims and to provide a unique right for children and their families. As a doctor in environmental health sciences, he is particularly interested in the impact of exposure to endocrine disruptors of environmental or occupational origin on thyroid function.
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