Professor Sven Hernberg, 1934 –2019

On 10 June 2019, the occupational health community received sad news on the passing of Professor Emeritus Sven Hernberg, MD, PhD, specialist in occupational medicine and Scientific Director of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH). Sven died at the age of 85 in Helsinki, Finland. Born in Helsinki, Sven completed his medical studies at the University of Helsinki and served in FIOH for 33 years. He began his residency in occupational medicine in FIOH’s Department of Occupational Medicine in 1960, and specialized in occupational medicine in 1964, obtained his PhD in the to xicology of lead in 1967, and served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Helsinki’s Medical Faculty from 1970 to 1999. His main career comprised dual positions: Director of FIOH’s Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 1972–1993, and Scientific Director of FIOH, 1974–1993. Sven published about 300 research articles, books, and book chapters, covering an immense number of different types of occupational exposures and outcomes. His contributions to research on occupational epidemiology were immeasurably important. As Scientific Director, he contributed to drawing up FIO H’s first ever multidisciplinary research strategy and took the lead role in its implementation, making FIOH one of the leading institutes of occupational health research. In addition to lead, mercury, cobalt, and carbon disulphide, Sven’s research covered a wide range of exposures such as dip heny...
Source: Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health - Category: Occupational Health Tags: Obituary Source Type: research