Danielle Vienneau, PD, PhD

Professional activities at Swiss TPH

• Environmental epidemiology and health risk assessment
• Investigating health effects of environmental exposures including radon, UV, greenspaces, ambient light, air pollution and transportation noise
• Exposure assessment: spatial modelling of environmental pollution and human interactions

Higher education and qualifications

• 2020: Habilitation in Epidemiology (equivalent to Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer), University of Basel, Switzerland
• 2006: PhD, Imperial College London, UK
• 1999: Adv. Diploma GIS, Centre of Geographic Sciences, Lawrencetown, NS, Canada
• 1997: MES (Master of Environmental Studies), School for Resource & Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
• 1995: BSc (Agr.) in Environmental Biology, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, NS, Canada

Past professional activities

• 2020-current: Scientific Project Leader (Geospatial Environmental Epidemiology), Swiss TPH, University of Basel
• 2016-2020: Senior Scientific Collaborator (Geospatial Environmental Epidemiology), Swiss TPH, University of Basel
• 2012-2016: Scientific Collaborator, Swiss TPH, University of Basel
• 2012-2015: Honorary Research Associate, MRC-HPA Centre for Environment & Health, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Imperial College London, UK
• 2006-2012: Research Associate, MRC-HPA Centre for Environment & Health, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Imperial College London, UK
• 2002-2006: Research Assistant/PhD Student, Imperial College London, UK
• 2000-2002: Environmental Scientist, Dillon Consulting Limited, Halifax, NS, Canada

Stafoggia M, Oftedal B, Chen J, Rodopoulou S, Renzi M, Atkinson R.W, Bauwelinck M, Klompmaker J.O, Mehta A, Vienneau D, Andersen Z.J, Bellander T, Brandt J, Cesaroni G, de Hoogh K, Fecht D, Gulliver J, Hertel O, Hoffmann B, Hvidtfeldt U.A, Jöckel K.H, Jørgensen J.T, Katsouyanni K, Ketzel M, Kristoffersen D.T, Lager A, Leander K, Liu S, Ljungman P.L.S, Nagel G, Pershagen G, Peters A, Raaschou-Nielsen O, Rizzuto D, Schramm S, Schwarze P.E, Severi G, Sigsgaard T, Strak M, van der Schouw Y.T, Verschuren M, Weinmayr G, Wolf K, Zitt E, Samoli E, Forastiere F, Brunekreef B, Hoek G, Janssen N.A.H. Long-term exposure to low ambient air pollution concentrations and mortality among 28 million people: results from seven large European cohorts within the ELAPSE project. Lancet Planet Health. 2022;6:e9-e18. DOI: 10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00277-1

Saucy A, Schäffer B, Tangermann L, Vienneau D, Wunderli J.M, Röösli M. Does night-time aircraft noise trigger mortality? A case-crossover study on 24 886 cardiovascular deaths. Eur Heart J. 2021;42(8):835-843. DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa957

Vienneau D, Héritier H, Foraster M, Eze I.C, Schaffner E, Thiesse L, Rudzik F, Habermacher M, Köpfli M, Pieren R, Brink M, Cajochen C, Wunderli J.M, Probst-Hensch N, Röösli M, SNC study Group. Façades, floors and maps – influence of exposure measurement error on the association between transportation noise and myocardial infarction. Environ Int. 2019;123:399-406. DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2018.12.015