Upcoming Events

Workshop: “Introduction to Exposome Research in Practice” on 14 December 2026 at the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology – Asia and Western Pacific Chapter Conference 2026 (ISEE–AWPC 2026), Bangkok, Thailand, 14–16 December 2026

“The primary focus is introducing the concept and interdisciplinary methods of exposome science, which studies the totality of environmental exposures (physical, chemical, biological, lifestyle, and psychosocial) over an individual’s life-course. The sessions cover exposome analytics, internal versus external exposomes, and practical applications in clinical epidemiology and birth cohorts”.

Registration Fees & Workshop – ISEE–AWPC 2026

Latest Events

Global Exposome Summit and International Human Exposome Network
(IHEN) Ambassador Program, Spain, April 2026.

Read more about it here: https://humanexposome.net/

Multistakeholder participatory workshop on lived experiences relating to head and neck cancer care and nutrition: Dr. Bhubaneshwar Borooah Cancer Institute, Guwahati, April 2026.

Webinar: Feb 2026

State of the Art of exposome research in Asia

Access here: https://www.oaepublish.com/webinars/jeea.396

Expert consensus panel: Cancer Research in India: Where are we? Where are we headed to?

CCDC-25 Research Symposium, September 2025

Read more about it here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42616953/

Podcast: March 2025

Could environmental pollution be behind the rise in cancers in India? | In Focus podcast – The Hindu

Listen here: https://lnkd.in/g3JVSyFe

Presentations & Publications

Presentations

• Global Exposome Summit, Sitges, Spain, April 2026
  Poster: Survival of hospitalized patients with oral and oropharyngeal cancers in the USA and in India: An exposome-wide analysis
• Wellcome Connecting Science:  Microbiome Interactions in Health and Disease, March 2026.
  e-Poster: Oral microbiota in early- and late-onset tongue cancers: A pilot case-control study
• Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi, Feb 2025
  Seminar: Dynamics of cancer screening and cancer stigma in India
• Indo-US conference on Climate Change Impacts of Occupational and Environmental Health, Feb 2025
  Poster: Occupational pesticides exposure and breast cancer risk among female agricultural workers in India
• 4th ICGA Conference: ICGA Foundation, October 2023
  Expert talk: Epidemiology for cancer prevention and precision oncology.
  Poster: Breaking Down Silos: Data Linkages and Cancer Research in India
  Oral: Population-Based Biorepositories for Advancing Cancer Research in India
• 34th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, Sep 2022
  e-Poster: Household Cooking Fuel and Gallbladder Cancer Risk: A Multi-Centre Case-Control Study in India.
  e-Poster: Lifetime Chronic Arsenic Exposure and Gallbladder Cancer Risk: Preliminary Evidence from Endemic Regions of India
• End-of-Program Workshop – Google AI for social good program, Sep 2022
  Deep Learning for Oral Cancer Screening and Referral: A Feasibility Investigation [DL-CANSCREEN]

Publications

1. Krishnamurthy A, Shridhar K, Mehrotra R, Pimple S, L. S. Shashidhara, Dhup S, M. Vijayakumar. Cancer research in India: Proceedings of an expert consensus panel. Indian J Cancer. 2026 Aug 11. Online ahead of print.
2. Shridhar K, Krishnamurthy A, Ramshankar V, Mandal S, Vaishnani T, Chaudhary S, Aggarwal A, Shivakoti R. Oral microbiota in early- and late-onset tongue cancers: A pilot case-control study Cancer Prev Res (Phila). 2026 Aug 3;19(8):443-451.
3. Dunneram Y, Lee JY, Watling CZ, Lawson I, Parsaeian M, Fraser GE, Miles F, D. Prabhakaran, Shridhar K, Kondal D, Mohan V, Ali MK, Narayan KMV, Tandon N, Tong TYN, ravis RC, Chiu THT, Lin M, Lin C; Yang H, Liang Y, Greenwood DC, Du H, Chen Z,  Yu C, Kakkoura MG, Reeves GK, Papier K, Floud S, Sinha R, Liao LM, Loftfield E,  Cade JE, Key TJ, Perez-Cornago A. Vegetarian diets and cancer risk: pooled analysis of 1.8 million women and men in nine prospective studies on three continents Br J Cancer. 2026 Apr;134(8):1218-1229. Correction: Br J Cancer. 2026 May;134(10):1497.
4. Dunneram Y, Lee JY, Watling CZ, Fraser GE, Miles F, D. Prabhakaran, Shridhar K, Kondal D, Mohan V, Ali MK, Narayan KMV, Tandon N, Tong TYN, Chiu THT, Lin M, Lin C; Yang H, Liang Y, Greenwood DC, Du H, Chen Z, Yu C, Kakkoura MG, Reeves GK, Papier K, Floud S, Sinha R, Liao LM, Loftfield E, Cade JE, Key TJ, Perez-Cornago A. Methods and participant characteristics in the Cancer Risk in Vegetarians Consortium: A cross-sectional analysis across 11 prospective studies BMC Public Health. 2024 Aug 2;24(1):2095.
5. Editorial: Shridhar K, Nagrani R. Early‑onset cancers and exposome paradigm: A global perspective with a focus on India Annals of Oncology Research and Therapy – Volume 4, Issue 1, January-June 2024
6. Ooi BMF, Muschialli L, Kondal D, Andia G, Tsun INH, Huang H, Singh K, Aggarwal A, Ali MK, Tandon N, K. M. Venkat Narayan, Mohan V, Dhillon PK, Gillespie TW, D. Prabhakaran, Goodman M, Shridhar K. Individual-level determinants of breast and cervical cancer screening and early testing in two regionally representative urban Indian populations. Prev Med Rep. 2024 Sep 6; 46:102883.
7. Shridhar K, Krishnatreya M, Kumar R, Kondal D, Bhattacharyya M, Kalita B, Snehil P, Singh AK, Kataki AC, Ghosh A, D Prabhakaran, Prabhakaran P, Dhillon PK. Household Cooking Fuel and Gallbladder Cancer Risk: A Multi-Centre Case-Control Study in India Cancer Causes Control, 2024 Feb;35(2):281-292.
8. Book Chapter: Shridhar K, Mehrotra R, Dhillon Health promotion for cancer prevention and control in low- and middle-income countries in monograph titled Public Health Approaches to Health Promotion. Editors: Monika Arora Shifalika Goenka CRC Press. Taylor and Francis September 2023; ISBN 9781138592681, DOI:10.1201/b23385-21; (pp.115-123)
9. Aggarwal A, Rama R, Dhillon PK, Deepa M, Kondal D, Kaushik N, Bumb D, Mehrotra R, Kohler BA, Mohan V, Gillespie TW, Patel AV, Rajaraman S, Prabhakaran D, Ward KC, Goodman M. Linking population-based cohorts with cancer registries in LMIC: a case study and lessons learnt in India. BMJ Open. 2023 Mar 6;13(3):e068644.
10. Shridhar K, Krishnatreya M, Sarkar S, Kumar R, Kondal D, Kuriakose S, R S Vinutha, Singh AK, Kataki AC, Ghosh A, Mukherjee A, Prabhakaran D, Mondal D, Prabhakaran P, Dhillon PK.Lifetime Chronic Arsenic Exposure and Gallbladder Cancer Risk: Preliminary Evidence from Endemic Regions of India Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2023 Mar 6;32(3):406-414.
11. Kuriakose S, Krishnamurthy A, Vinutha RS, Ramshankar V, Sekhar S, Walia GK, Gupta R, Aggarwal A, RajanS, Kondal D, Grover S, D. Prabhakaran, Dhillon PK, Shridhar K*, Goodman Time intervals and patient-level factors in oral cancer diagnostic pathways: An application of the WHO framework in India. *Corresponding author Cancer Epidemiol. 2022 Nov 3; 81:102283.
12. Sekar P, Ghosh S, Dhillon PK, Shridhar K. The Dynamics of Breast Cancer Screening Approaches in Urban India: An Ethnographic Study from Delhi. SSM – Qualitative Research in Health 2 (2022) 100135
13. Kaushik A, Kuriakose S, Aggarwal A, Mehrotra R, D Prabhakaran, Shridhar K. Research Correspondence: Health Care Providers’ Perspective of COVID-19 Pandemic on Cancer Treatment, Screening and Early Detection Services in India Indian J Med Res. 2022 May-Jun;155(5&6):587-590. Online ahead of print
14. Shridhar K, Aggarwal A, Rawal I, Gupta R, Masih S, Mehrotra R, Gillespie TW, Dhillon PK, Michaud DS, Prabhakaran D*, Goodman M*. Feasibility of Investigating the Association between Bacterial Pathogens and Oral Leukoplakia in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Population-based Pilot Study in India. PLoS One. 2021 Apr 29;16(4):e0251017 *joint senior authors
15. Squiers L, Siddiqui M, Kataria I, Dhillon PK, Aggarwal A, Bann C, Lynch M, Nyblade L. Perceived, Experienced, and Internalized Cancer Stigma: Perspectives of Cancer Patients and Caregivers in India [Internet]. Research Triangle Park (NC): RTI Press; 2021 Apr. PMID: 35107913.

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