Professor Tanja Pless-Mulloli
Prof of Environ Epidemiology

  • Email: tanja.pless-mulloli@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 7211
  • Fax: +44 (0) 191 222 8211
  • Address: Institute of Health & Society
    Newcastle University
    William Leech Building
    The Medical School
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE2 4HH

Qualifications

Diploma Biology, botany, applied botany and microbiology - University of Hamburg (grade excellent)
MBBS - University of Hamburg
MD - University of Hamburg
MSc Environmental Health (distinction)
Full registration with General Medical Council
MFPHM

Previous Positions

1992 - 1993 Postgraduate Student - University of Edinburgh (MSc course on Environmental Health)
1991 - 1992 Head of the Department of Environmental Medicine at the NORDIG Institute for Health Research and Prevention, Hamburg
1990 - 1991 Senior House Officer, Department of Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital, Hamburg
1987 - 1989 Research Fellow, Institute of Medical Sociology, University of Hamburg
1986 - 1987 Rotation Internship, University Hospital Hamburg, Department of Internal Medicine, Traumatology and Gynaecology
Elective (three months) at the Narinder Mohan Hospital, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
1982 - 1986 Voluntary and Part time work for the Society for the Promotiion of Development Education and Co-operation (NGO) within the Federal congress of developmental action groups (BUKO), Hamburg
1984 - 1985 Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Department of Medical Anthropology
1984 Elective (two months) at the H.M.G. Ayurvedic Hospital Naradevi, Kathmandu, Nepal
1981 - 1984 Research Fellow, Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hamburg
1980 - 1982 Part Time Teacher of Biology, Bismarck-Higher Secondary School, Hamburg
1980 - 1981 Research work for the diploma thesis at the Institute of Common Botany, Department of Hormone Physiology, University of Hamburg

Memberships

International - NICOLE (Network for Industrially Contaminated Land in Europe) Since 2003
Public Health Observatory Northern Region Congenital Anomaly Survey (NORCAS) Steering Group Since 2004
National Persistant Organic Pollutant Network Steering Group (POP) NERC funded Since 2004
SDRN Steering Group (UK Sustainable Development Research Network) reporting to DEFRA Since 2003
Regional Contaminated Land Forum Steering Group Since 2002
Newcastle Lead Task Force Since 2002
Invited Peer Review of Environment Agency - Dioxin Exposure Model 2003
International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE)
International Epidemiology Association (IEA)
Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP) (Germany)
Developing Area Research Network (DARN) Newcastle University
National Health Protection Agency Environmental Public Health Working Group Since 2005

Languages

German - Mother tongue
English - Excellent oral and writing skills
Russian - Basic knowledge
French - Basic knowledge

Informal Interests

Travel, gardening

Research Interests

Expertise: Environmental Public health, Environmental Health, Environmental epidemiology

Research Interest: Health of people near industry i.e. opencast coal mining, chemical industry, contamimated land, exposure assessment, aetiology of the effect of particulate matter on human health, bioavailability of soil contamination, risk perception and risk communication of environment and health in various countries

Funding

1.Cultural understanding of environmental health risk (ESRC and Anglo-German foundation, 2001-2003, £186K)
2.Health effects of opencast coal mining (MRC/DOH/DOE, 1996-1999, £283K)
3.Case Control study on lung cancer in women in Teesside (FACT, 2000-2003, £129K)
4.Scoping study Environment and Health (Northern and Yorkshire Public Hhealth Observatory, 2001, £35K)
5.Pilot study risk perception and communication near foot and mouth burial and pyre sites (Northumberland and Durham and Darlington Health Authority 2001, £12K)
6.Assessment of dioxins and heavy metals in ash, soil, eggs and vegetables related to the deposition of ash from the Byker incinerator (Newcastle Cirty Council, 2000-1002, £110K)
7.TEES Health and illness in Teesside and Sunderland (1992-1997, £75K)

Undergraduate Teaching

Program Director undergraduate teaching Public Health including Essential Junior Rotation (2000-2004)

Postgraduate Teaching

Environmental Public Health MSc Health Sciences (Module Leader 1994-2004)