Jon Ayres is Professor of Environmental & Respiratory Medicine at the University of Birmingham and a respiratory physician. He has advised the Government and a variety of learned societies on air pollution and health issues related to the environment for a number of years. His clinical interests are focussed on occupational and environmental lung disease and his research is directed towards understanding the health effects of indoor and outdoor air pollution and the health risks of nanomaterial exposure.
“The only way we can understand the true risks from exposure to environmental hazards is to construct robust exposure–response functions for a range of exposure–outcome pairings. This is somewhat easier for outcomes which follow closely on exposures but much harder for those where the relevant exposures precede outcomes by long periods of time. We therefore have to define better ways of determining those exposures in objective rather than subjective ways – a huge challenge!”
– Jon Ayres
Professor Ayres’ expertise covers the “Exposure and Impacts” category of the scope of JEM. For Board members covering other areas of our scope check out the profile article of our Editorial Board.
