Juan Pablo is a PhD candidate at the Center for International Health within the Department for Global Health and Primary Care. He is affiliated to the research group behind the Respiratory Health in Northern Europe, Spain and Australia study (RHINESSA study). He is a Medical doctor with specialization in Pediatrics and holds a Masters degree in Global Health from the University of Bergen.

His PhD project aims to find the possible associations of the early use of snus with respiratory health in Northern European cohorts in one and two generations. This project seeks to inform researchers, medical community and policy makers about the potential effects of the use oral moist tobacco in the health of its users and future offspring, and most importantly, its prevention.

In addition, he is task leader in a research project funded by the NRC that is being developed in rural areas in Guatemala, which will study pesticides and exposures from traditional textile industry and its relation to health among indigenous Guatemalans.

Academic article

• Lopez Cervantes, Juan Pablo; Schlünssen, Vivi; Senaratna, Chamara et al. (2024). Use of oral moist tobacco (snus) in puberty and its association with asthma in the population-based RHINESSA study. (external link)
• Gyawali, Sanjay; Lopez Cervantes, Juan Pablo; Jögi, Nils Oskar et al. (2023). Previous tuberculosis infection associated with increased frequency of asthma and respiratory symptoms in a Nordic–Baltic multicentre population study. (external link)
• Gyawali, Sanjay; Lopez Cervantes, Juan Pablo; Johannessen, Ane et al. (2023). Maternal and paternal tuberculosis is associated with increased asthma and respiratory symptoms in their offspring: a study from Northern Europe. (external link)
• Lopez Cervantes, Juan Pablo; Shigdel, Rajesh; Accordini, S. et al. (2022). Parental TB associated with offspring asthma and rhinitis. (external link)

Academic literature review

• López Cervantes, Juan Pablo; Lønnebotn, Marianne; Jögi, Nils Oskar et al. (2021). The Exposome Approach in Allergies and Lung Diseases: Is It Time to Define a Preconception Exposome?. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

• PhD project: Using or quitting oral moist tobacco? Impact of oral moist tobacco on the respiratory health of a multinational cohort and their offspring.
• NFR project: Pesticides and exposures from traditional textile industry and its relation to health, a study in indigenous populations in Guatemala.