Bénedicte Jacquemin

Dr. Bénédicte Jacquemin has a degree in Medicine from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (2000), a Master in Environmental Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain (2005) and a PhD in Life and Health Sciences from the University Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona, Spain (2007). 

She did a postdoc (2007-2009) at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), in the Respiratory and Environmental Epidemiology team in Villejuif, France. In October 2009 she became a researcher in the same institution. From September 2011 till July 2018, she was located in the center of Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) -now ISGlobal Campus Mar- in Barcelona. In August 2018, she went back to France and joined the Research Institute for Environmental and Occupational Health (INSERM-U1085), and is affiliated to Team #9: Exposure Assessment and Epidemiological Research on Environment, Reproduction and Development.

During her medical career she became interested in research and participated in several studies mainly in the field of infectious diseases. Later, during her doctorate, she worked in the assessment of exposure of air pollution and its effects on respiratory health. She still works in the study of the effects of environmental pollution on asthma and rhinitis and their associated features. More recently, she has been interested in the effects of air pollution on other health outcomes including cognition, cancer and fertility / infertility.​

Contact: benedicte.jacquemin [at] isglobal.org