Dr Anna Hansell

Wellcome Intermediate Clinical Fellow

Dept Epidemiology & Public Health
Imperial College School of Medicine at St Mary's
Norfolk Place
London, W2 1PG
UK
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Research Expertise

 

Anna Hansell is an environmental epidemiologist, with a special interest in health effects of air pollution including that produced by volcanoes and other non-anthropogenic sources. Her background is in respiratory hospital medicine and subsequently public health medicine. She completed a PhD in epidemiology in 2004 looking at the impact of environmental risk factors on respiratory disease mortality in the UK. She is currently leading several studies examining the long-term impacts of air pollution exposure on health. She was a member of a study in Montserrat in 2007 investigating the effect of volcanic air pollution on children’s respiratory health.

Relevant Publications

 

Hansell A.L., Horwell, C.J., Oppenheimer, C. 2006. The health hazards of volcanic and geothermal areas. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 63(2):149-156.

Hansell, A, Oppenheimer. 2004. Health hazards from volcanic gases: a systematic literature review. Archives of Environmental Health 59(12):628-639.

Hansell, A.L. 2003 Respiratory effects of volcanic emissions (letter). Occupational & Environmental Medicine 60:529-530.

Hansell A, Oppenheimer, C. 2002. Review of health hazards from volcanic gases. Epidemiology 13(4) Suppl:S188.

 

 
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 We are proud to announce the publication of two pamphlets on volcanic ash fall hazards. They are designed for mass distribution at the onset of new eruptions. They are now avaiable in English, Japanese, French Spanish, Portuguese and Swahili with Italian versions being available shortly. Please see our Pamphlets page for further infomation.

 

  

 

 

 

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