Birgitte Blatter |
Birgitte M. Blatter (1968) is an epidemiologist. She studied Health Sciences at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. After her graduation in 1991, she started as a researcher at the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistsics at the same university. In 1997 she was awarded her doctorate for a thesis on the effect of occupational exposure to toxic substances in parents on the occurrence of spina bidfifa in offspring. Thereafter Birgitte worked at the research organization TNO. She was responsible for scientific and applied research on the prevention of musculoskeletal and mental disorders due to physical and psychosocial risk factors at work. At TNO she was head of the team Prevention from 2006 until 2011 and programme manager Healthy, vital and safe work between 2011 and 2015. |
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