Email miranda.loh@nus.edu.sg

The working life exposome is the totality of environmental, occupational, and social exposures individuals encounter across their working lives and how these shape health trajectories. Understanding these interactions requires collaboration across disciplines and can help us design healthier work.

Dr. Loh’s research has included developing methods to characterize the ‘working life exposome’ using smart technologies, indoor air quality, personal level environmental exposures, and evaluating the effectiveness of interventions such as facemask or respirator wearing to reduce air pollution exposures. She has also been part of interdisciplinary teams using creative methods for engaging stakeholders and the public on environment and health issues.

• NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health

• Occupational Health
• Environmental Health

• Occupational Health
• Environmental Health
• Public Health

• Sc.D. in Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health
• M.Sc. in Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health
• B.A. in Human Biology, Stanford University

• Researcher, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finland, 2007- 2010
• Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, USA, 2010-2015
• Senior Scientist (2014-2019), Team Lead (2019-2022), Director (2022-2025), Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM), Scotland, United Kingdom

• Loh, M., Sarigiannis, D., Gotti, A., Karakitsios, S., Pronk, A., Kuijpers, E., Annesi-Maesano, I., Baiz, N., Madureira, J., Oliveira Fernandes, E., Jerrett, M., Cherrie, J., Loh, M., Sarigiannis, D., Gotti, A., Karakitsios, S., Pronk, A., Kuijpers, E., Annesi-Maesano, I., Baiz, N., Madureira, J., Oliveira Fernandes, E., Jerrett, M., Cherrie, J.W., 2017. How Sensors Might Help Define the External Exposome. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 14, 434. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14040434
• Cherrie, J.W., Apsley, A., Cowie, H., Steinle, S., Mueller, W., Lin, C., Horwell, C.J., Sleeuwenhoek, A., Loh, M., 2018b. Effectiveness of face masks used to protect Beijing residents against particulate air pollution. Occup Environ Med 75, 446–452. https://doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2017-104765
• Lin, C., Hu, D., Jia, X., Chen, J., Deng, F., Guo, X., Heal, M.R., Cowie, H., Wilkinson, P., Miller, M.R., Loh, M., 2020. The relationship between personal exposure and ambient PM2.5 and black carbon in Beijing. Science of The Total Environment 737, 139801. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139801
• McDonald, F., Horwell, C.J., Wecker, R., Dominelli, L., Loh, M., Kamanyire, R., Ugarte, C., 2020. Facemask use for community protection from air pollution disasters: An ethical overview and framework to guide agency decision making. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 43, 101376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101376
• Cherrie, John W, Loh, M., Aitken, R.J., 2020. Protecting healthcare workers from inhaled SARS-CoV-2 virus. Occupational Medicine 70, 335–337. https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqaa077
• Cherrie, John W., Loh, M., Aitken, R.J., 2020. Protecting healthcare workers from inhaled SARS-CoV-2 virus. Occupational Medicine.
• Cherrie, J.W., Cherrie, M.P.C., Smith, A., Holmes, D., Semple, S., Steinle, S., Macdonald, E., Moore, G., Loh, M., 2021. Contamination of Air and Surfaces in Workplaces with SARS-CoV-2 Virus: A Systematic Review. Annals of Work Exposures and Health. https://doi.org/10.1093/annweh/wxab026
• Mueller, W., Wilkinson, P., Milner, J., Vardoulakis, S., Steinle, S., Pärkkä, J., Parmes, E., Cluitmans, L., Kuijpers, E., Pronk, A., Sarigiannis, D., Karakitsios, S., Chapizanis, D., Maggos, T., Stamatelopoulou, A., Loh, M., 2021. Neighbourhood and path-based greenspace in three European countries: associations with objective physical activity. BMC Public Health 21, 282. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10259-0
• Kuijpers, E., Wel, L. van, Loh, M., Galea, K.S., Makris, K.C., Stierum, R., Fransman, W., Pronk, A., 2021. A Scoping Review of Technologies and Their Applicability for Exposome-Based Risk Assessment in the Oil and Gas Industry. Annals of Work Exposures and Health 65, 1011–1028. https://doi.org/10.1093/annweh/wxab039
• Mueller, W., Loh, M., Fletcher, T., Rhodes, S., Pembrey, L., Pearce, N., Tongeren, M. van, 2022. An Ecological Study of COVID-19 Infection Rates within the UK Food and Drink Processing Industry. Annals of Work Exposures and Health 67, 147–152. https://doi.org/10.1093/annweh/wxac042
• Pronk, A., Loh, M., Kuijpers, E., Albin, M., Selander, J., Godderis, L., Ghosh, M., Vermeulen, R., Peters, S., Mehlum, I.S., Turner, M.C., Schlünssen, V., Goldberg, M., Kogevinas, M., Harding, B.N., Solovieva, S., Garani-Papadatos, T., van Tongeren, M., Stierum, R., 2022. Applying the exposome concept to working life health. Environ Epidemiol 6, e185. https://doi.org/10.1097/EE9.0000000000000185
• Loh, M.M., Yaxley, N., Moore, G., Holmes, D., Todd, S., Smith, A., Macdonald, E., Semple, S., Cherrie, M., Patel, M., Hamill, R., Leckie, A., Dancer, S.J., Cherrie, J.W., 2023. Measurement of SARS-CoV-2 in air and on surfaces in Scottish hospitals. Journal of Hospital Infection 133, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2022.11.019
• Mueller, W., Smith, A., Kuijpers, E., Pronk, A., Loh, M., 2024. Worker perspectives on improving occupational health and safety using wearable sensors: a cross-sectional survey. Annals of Work Exposures and Health 68, 867–873.

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