Environmental Health

Environmental Health Unit 

• produces and refines data on the population’s exposure to different environmental factors
• assesses and studies human health risks and benefits caused by environmental factors
• serves as a reference laboratory for certain microbiological methods related to housing health and chemical methods.

Focus areas of the unit’s activities:

• moisture damage
• indoor air
• environmental pollutants
• urban air pollution (including transport and wood burning)
• environmental noise
• health impacts of climate change
• health impacts of urban environments.

Contact details

Anne Hyvärinen
Head of Unit, Research Professor
tel. +358 29 524 6364
e-mail: [email protected]

Kirsi Korhonen
Unit Assistant, Planning Officer
tel. +358 29 524 6363
e-mail: [email protected]

Postal address
Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Environmental Health Unit
PO Box 95
FI-70701 Kuopio, Finland