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Michelle C Turner is an Associate Research Professor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain. Her primary research interests include environmental and occupational epidemiology, in particular in relation to cancer incidence and mortality outcomes.
She has actively conducted research in both North America and Europe. She has led 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 which sought to optimize the use of occupational, industrial, and population cohorts in Europe and provide networking and training opportunities for new researchers. She is co-Leader of the Exposome Project for Health and Occupational Research (EPHOR) OMega-X mega-cohort, working towards large-scale pooling of European cohort studies with information on occupational exposures. Most recently, she has established and serves as Coordinator of the 5-year Horizon Europe EU-funded INTERCAMBIO project (2024-2028), which seeks to promote mental and physical health of workers in changing work environments due to climate change, implementation of new working practices, and among workers in green jobs.

She was Visiting Scientist in the Monographs Program of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) (2019-2021). In 2021, she served as Chair of the Working Group of Human Studies in IARC Monograph meeting: Volume 130 on 1,1,1-Trichloroethane and four other industrial chemicals. In 2025, she served as Overall Chair of the IARC Monograph meeting: Volume 138 on Automotive Gasoline and Some Oxygenated Gasoline Additives. She also served as Co-Chair of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Occupational Burden of Disease Estimation (TAG-OBoDE). She served as Secretary-Treasurer of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) from 2019-2025.

In 2021, she was awarded the inaugural Epidemiology in Occupational Health (EPICOH) Mid-Career Award for exceptional contribution to the practice of occupational epidemiology. In 2026, she was awarded the Tony McMichael Mid-Term Career Award from the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) for contributions to environmental epidemiology through scientific excellence, leadership and mentorship. She is Editor in Chief of the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Lines of research

• Air Pollution
• Cancer
• Climate Change 
• Exposome
• Occupation
• Radiation

Main publications

• Turner MC, Pronk A, Bouziri H, Bültmann U, Falkstedt D, Garde AH, Kolstad HA, Krokstad S, Leinonen T, Nordby KC, Schlünssen V, Selander J, Broberg K, de Cid R, Godderis L, Gustavsson P, Johannessen A, Oude Hengel KM, Sigsgaard T, Straumfors A, Svanes C, Hasting R, Solovieva S, Albin M, Kirkeleit J, Mehlum IS. 2026. Cohort Profile: The European Occupational Exposome Mega Cohort Consortium (OMega-X). International Journal of Epidemiology. 55(5), dyag151.
• Turner MC, Basagaña X, Burdorf A, Canu IG, Gorny A, Kolstad HA, Broberg K, Pronk A, Selander S, Mehlum IS, van Baal P, Svensson S, Pearce N, Scholten B, Godderis L, Straif K, Ghosh M, Viegas S, Albin M, Julvez J, Porcel J, Kogevinas M, on behalf of the INTERCAMBIO Study Group. 2026. Interventions to promote mental and physical health in changing working environments due to climate change, sustainable work practices, and in green jobs: the EU INTERCAMBIO project. The Journal of Climate Change and Health. 28:100620.
• Turner MC, Basagaña X, Albin M, Broberg K, Burdorf A, van Daalen KR, Guseva Canu I, Kolstad HA, Kogevinas M, Lowe R, Pearce N, Pega F, Saget C, Schubauer-Berigan MK, Svensson S, Vineis P, Straif K. 2025. Occupational health in the era of climate change and the green transition: a call for research. The Lancet Regional Health – Europe, 54:101353.
• Turner MC, Godderis L, Guénel P, Hopf N, Quintanilla-Vega B, Soares-Lima SC, Chaiklieng S, Da Silva J, Fustinoni S, Gi M, Heck JE, Huaux F, Johanson G, Kirkeleit J, Kirsanov K, Richiardi L, Paulo Teixeira J, Terron A, Topinka J, White MC, Benbrahim-Tallaa L, Facchin C, Kunzmann A, Madia F, Pasqual E, Wedekind R, Deng X, Suonio E, Viegas S, Barry A, Dolatkhah R, Dongoran RA, Gil EG, Onyije FM, Mattock H, de Conti A*, Schubauer-Berigan MK*. 2025. Carcinogenicity of automotive gasoline and some oxygenated gasoline additives. Lancet Oncology, 28(5):548–549.
• Turuban M, Kromhout H, Vila J, Vallbona-Vistós M, de Vocht F, Baldi I, Richardson L, Benke G, Krewski D, Parent ME, Sadetzki S, Schlehofer B, Schüz J, Siemiatycki J, van Tongeren M, Woodward A, Cardis E, Turner MC. 2025. Occupational exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields and brain tumour risk: application of the INTEROCC job-exposure matrix. International Journal of Cancer, 156:538-551.