🔆 Key Takeaways on Exposomics and Environmental Health 📍 Theme of World Environment Day 2025 ✅ Focuses on eliminating plastic pollution, particularly micro-plastics, which pose serious public health risks. 📍 Need for Exposomics ✅ A comprehensive approach to disease etiology and prevention must be adopted. ✅ Exposomics focuses on understanding all environmental exposures throughout an individual’s life. 📍 India’s Environmental Burden ✅ India contributes 25% of the global environmental disease burden. ✅ Rapid economic growth exacerbates environmental exposures and health risks. 📍 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Approach ✅ Environmental risks caused 18.9% of global deaths and 14.4% of all disability-adjusted life years. 📍 Challenges in Data & Research ✅ Current environmental burden estimates are underdeveloped, failing to address complex environmental interactions. 📍 Exposomics as an Emerging Method ✅ Exposomics studies environmental exposures and their link to health, enabling more comprehensive research. ✅ Requires interdisciplinary technologies like AI, wearables, and biomonitoring. 📍 Policy and Infrastructure Needs ✅ Building capacity for exposomics data generation and interoperable data repositories is essential for actionable results. ✅ Immediate focus on creating a robust data ecosystem to enable health research. #environmentalhealth #exposomics #plasticpollution #india