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Kurt Straif is affiliated with the International Agency For Research On Cancer in France. Their research spans major fields such as Medicine and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Cancer Research, and Physiology.

The scientist's work addresses numerous topics related to environmental and occupational health, with emphasis on Air Quality and Health Impacts, Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases, Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Occupational Exposure and Asthma, COVID-19 and Mental Health, and Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging.

Frequent coauthors of Straif include:

  • Manolis Kogevinas
  • Hans Kromhout
  • Ann Olsson
  • Joachim Schüz
  • Roel Vermeulen

Research has been published in several venues, the most frequent being:

  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • Abstracts
  • Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • Environmental Health
  • Oral Presentations

Among their recent papers are:

  • WHO Air Quality Guidelines 2021-Aiming for Healthier Air for all: A Joint Statement by Medical, Public Health, Scientific Societies and Patient Representative Organisations (2021, International Journal of Public Health)
  • Respirable Crystalline Silica Exposure, Smoking, and Lung Cancer Subtype Risks. A Pooled Analysis of Case-Control Studies (2020, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine)
  • Aspartame and cancer - new evidence for causation (2021, Environmental Health)
  • Diesel Engine Exhaust Exposure, Smoking, and Lung Cancer Subtype Risks. A Pooled Exposure-Response Analysis of 14 Case-Control Studies (2020, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine)
  • Occupational Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Lung Cancer Risk: Results from a Pooled Analysis of Case-Control Studies (SYNERGY) (2022, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention)

Best Publications

  • A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Stephen S. Lim;Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Goodarz Danaei

  • Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohsen Naghavi;Haidong Wang;Rafael Lozano;Adrian Davis

  • A review of human carcinogens--Part B: biological agents

    Véronique Bouvard;Robert Baan;Kurt Straif;Yann Grosse

  • Body Fatness and Cancer — Viewpoint of the IARC Working Group

    Béatrice Lauby-Secretan;Chiara Scoccianti;Dana Loomis;Yann Grosse

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

  • Carcinogenicity of consumption of red and processed meat

    Véronique Bouvard;Dana Loomis;Kathryn Z Guyton;Yann Grosse

  • Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Marissa B Reitsma;Parkes J Kendrick;Emad Ababneh;Cristiana Abbafati

  • The carcinogenicity of outdoor air pollution.

    Dana Loomis;Yann Grosse;Béatrice Lauby-Secretan;Fatiha El Ghissassi

  • A review of human carcinogens--Part E: tobacco, areca nut, alcohol, coal smoke, and salted fish.

    Béatrice Secretan;Kurt Straif;Robert Baan;Yann Grosse

  • Carcinogenicity of shift-work, painting, and fire-fighting.

    Kurt Straif;Robert Baan;Yann Grosse;Béatrice Secretan

  • IARC Monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans: Some traditional herbal medicines, some mycotoxins, naphthalene and styrene

    Ahti Anttila;Ramesh V. Bhat;James A. Bond;Susan J. Borghoff

  • Carcinogenicity of alcoholic beverages

    Robert Baan;Kurt Straif;Yann Grosse;Béatrice Secretan

  • A review of human carcinogens--part D: radiation.

    Fatiha El Ghissassi;Robert Baan;Kurt Straif;Yann Grosse

  • Tobacco smoking and cancer: a brief review of recent epidemiological evidence.

    A.J. Sasco;A.J. Sasco;M.B. Secretan;K. Straif

  • Carcinogenicity of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields

    Robert Baan;Yann Grosse;Béatrice Lauby-Secretan;Fatiha El Ghissassi

  • Breast-Cancer Screening — Viewpoint of the IARC Working Group

    Béatrice Lauby‑Secretan;Chiara Scoccianti;Dana Loomis;Lamia Benbrahim‑Tallaa

  • Carcinogenicity of tetrachlorvinphos, parathion, malathion, diazinon, and glyphosate

    Kathryn Z Guyton;Dana Loomis;Yann Grosse;Fatiha El Ghissassi

  • Carcinogenicity of human papillomaviruses.

    Vincent Cogliano;Robert Baan;Kurt Straif;Yann Grosse

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans Kromhout
Hans Kromhout Utrecht University
Roel Vermeulen
Roel Vermeulen Utrecht University
Paolo Boffetta
Paolo Boffetta Stony Brook Medicine
Thomas Brüning
Thomas Brüning Ruhr University Bochum
Jack Siemiatycki
Jack Siemiatycki University of Montreal
Karl-Heinz Jöckel
Karl-Heinz Jöckel University of Duisburg-Essen
Eleonora Fabianova
Eleonora Fabianova Regional Authority of Public Health
Jolanta Lissowska
Jolanta Lissowska Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology
Lenka Foretova
Lenka Foretova Masaryk University
Dario Consonni
Dario Consonni University of Milan

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