Rate My Professor Mireille Toledano

Professor Mireille Toledano is the Mohn Chair in Population Child Health and Director of the Mohn Centre for Children's Health and Wellbeing in the School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London. She holds the position of Professor of Perinatal and Paediatric Environmental Epidemiology. Trained at University College London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, she obtained her PhD from Imperial College London. Her research specializations centre on environmental epidemiology, examining the health effects of exposures such as radiofrequency electromagnetic fields, noise pollution, air quality, and digital technologies during perinatal and paediatric periods. She has held progressive academic appointments at Imperial College London, advancing from Lecturer to Senior Lecturer, Reader in Epidemiology, and now Professor.

Professor Toledano leads the SCAMP cohort study, which investigates cognitive development, behaviour, and mental health in relation to mobile phone use and screen time among adolescents. She is a principal investigator in the UK COSMOS cohort, studying environment and health effects including mobile phone radiofrequency exposure. Key publications include "Hepatocellular carcinoma: epidemiology, risk factors and pathogenesis" (Gomaa et al., World Journal of Gastroenterology, 2008), "Chlorination disinfection byproducts in water and their association with adverse reproductive outcomes: a review" (Nieuwenhuijsen et al., Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2000), "Noise pollution and human cognition: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis of recent evidence" (Thompson et al., Environment International, 2022), and "Road traffic noise is associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality and all-cause mortality in London" (Halonen et al., European Heart Journal, 2015). She received the Tony Atkins Prize for Statistics in Medicine in 2017 and serves on the UK Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment since 2018. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her work contributes to evidence on environmental risks to child health, influencing public health understanding and policy.