Nina Iszatt

I am a Senior Scientist at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH). I am an experienced environmental epidemiologist adept at working in interdisciplinary teams, and with expertise in quantitative methods for assessing the health effects of complex exposures, as well as qualitative and participatory research methods. My current research focuses on early-life environmental determinants of child health and wellbeing. At NIPH, I lead the NON-PROTECTED project on perfluorinated toxicants, the gut microbiome and immune response in children. I have worked extensively in developing countries, and for different institutions, including NGOs, academia and as a consultant for international organisations. From 1999-2004, I was based in the Philippines, working in an NGO researching and facilitating participatory governance and agrarian reform, principally from a gender and development perspective. This grass-roots experience seeded my long-term interest in the inclusion of vulnerable and marginalised groups in research and society as a whole and for finding equitable health solutions. I teach environmental epidemiology and supervise MSc and PhD students at the Univerisity of Oslo, Norway. I have a BSc in Psychology from Goldsmiths’ University London (1997) and an MSc in Environmental Technology (2006) and PhD in Environmental and Reproductive Epidemiology (2011) from Imperial College London.