Olivier Laurent, Yara Carrejo Gironza, Sophie Ancelet, Olivier Armant, Denis Bard, Katia Baumgartner, Sylvie Bortoli, Céline Boudet, Philippe Chamaret, Stéphanie Cormier, Arthur David, Hélène Desqueyroux, Mariette Gerber, Sonia Grimbuhler, Christian Mougin, Laurence Payrastre, Simon Schraub, Brigitte Trousse, Cynthia Reaud, Sylvie Charron
CONTEXT: Public interest for citizen science (CS) in environmental health is growing. The goals of environmental health research projects are diverse, as are the methods used to reach these goals. Opportunities for greater implication of the civil society and related challenges differ at each step of such projects. These methodological aspects need to be widely shared and understood by all stakeholders. The LILAS initiative (acronym for "application of citizen science approaches such as LIving LAbS to research on environmental exposures and chronic risks") aimed to 1) favour a mutual understanding of the main issues and research methods in environmental health, of their stakes for different actors, but also of the requirements, strengths and limitations of these methods and to 2) identify expected benefits and points of attention related to stronger degrees of participation as part of environmental health research projects...
April 10, 2024: Environmental Research