Anna Oudin is an epidemiologist and statistician. Her research is about how air pollution and other environmental factors may affect the brain, eg dementia and mental health.
Anna Oudin is an Associate Professor in Epidemiology and a statistician specializing in environmental health. Her research focuses on how air pollution and other environmental exposures affect the brain, cognitive function, and mental health across the life course.
She investigates, for example, how stress and air pollution jointly influence children’s health, how air pollution contributes to mental health problems in children and adolescents, and how exposure to air pollution, noise, and green environments affects cognitive function in older adults. Another line of research examines how mixtures of chemicals—so-called “chemical cocktails”—impact brain health. She has also studied the health effects of temperature variation and residential wood burning.
Anna is affiliated with Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Lund University and participates in several international research projects, including the EU-funded projects TUBE, ADAIR, MARCHES, PAREMPI, Re-MEND, and EXPOSIGNALZ. Her research has been funded by Formas, the European Union, the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, and Region Skåne’s Environmental Fund.
In her work, she uses large longitudinal datasets such as the Betula study and SIMSAM, and she collaborates internationally, including within the RHINESSA project.
Anna’s research has received wide media attention, including coverage by Swedish national media. She is also co-author of the book Air Pollution and the Brain (Springer), which synthesizes current knowledge on how air pollution affects brain health.