Meltem Kutlar Joss

Meltem Kutlar Joss is a trained environmental scientist and public health professional working in the Chronic Disease Epidemiology Unit in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH) at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel as a senior scientific collaborator. She is the project manager of the Swiss literature database LUDOK http://ludok.swisstph.ch on health effects of ambient air pollution on human health funded by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment. She has authored and co-authored reviews on health effects of specific air pollutants for national and international bodies. As a member of the Swiss Commission on Air Hygiene, she advises the Swiss federal and cantonal administrations on scientific and methodological questions relating to air pollution control and on the effects of air pollution on human health and the natural world. Her expertise includes ambient air pollution and environmental health epidemiology, literature searches, coeliac disease and sustainable development.
Meltem received her MSc. in Environmental Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland (1999) and graduated from the joint advanced Masters Programme in Public Health from the Universities of Basel, Bern and Zurich in 2011.


Contact: meltem.kutlar@swisstph.ch