Speaker Detail
Dr. Carl-Gustaf Bornehag
Dr. Carl-Gustaf Bornehag is a professor in public health with a background in engineering and environmental medicine. He has conducted several large multidisciplinary studies on the importance of indoor environmental factors for health effects such as asthma and allergy and sick building syndrome symptoms. Recent studies are focusing on modern exposures such as endocrine disrupting chemicals and their importance for different modern diseases such as asthma and allergy, reproduction disorders, autism, obesity, etc. Bornehag is the principal investigator for two large epidemiological studies in Sweden: the Dampness in Buildings and Health (DBH) and one longitudinal birth cohort study, the SELMA study. He has been involved in Swedish national governmental inquiries regarding allergies and environmental-health issues and has been involved in European multidisciplinary reviews of the total scientific literature with regard to indoor environmental factors and health. Bornehag is associated with Karlstad University, Technical Research Institute of Sweden, and the International Centre of Indoor Environment and Energy at the Technical University of Denmark.
