Understanding the impact of the exposome on health and society
HEAP will provide an open access, technical research platform to assess the impact of the exposome on human health. It will contain high-quality exposome data from five different cohort studies, and will be scalable to any research setting.
Find out more about the different components of the HEAP project.
Technology
The HEAP informatics platform will bring data and research together to provide an open resource for scientists and policy-makers across the world.
Data
HEAP is a system for analysing exposome data. The data come from large groups of people, or data cohorts.
Research
The data will be used for ethical research, using the latest scientific methods, to help improve understanding of the environmental factors that affect human health.