Healthy Tattoo Consortium (HTC)
Taking tattoo safety to the next level
Taking tattoo safety to the next level
HTC is setting a new standard by filling crucial knowledge gaps, shaping clininal guidelines, and shining a spotlight on the public health impact of tattoos. By putting knowledge into your hands, HTC will ensure that every tattoo decision is backed by science, not guesswork.

Vision

The vision of the HTC is to perform, publish and disseminate to stakeholders: high quality research elucidating potential epidemiological and causal relations between tattoo size, location on the body, and pigment quality, with positive, neutral, or negative health outcomes. 

What is explicity not part of our vision:

  • HTC has no esthetic, moral, legal or religious positions on tattoo use. Some HTC founding members have tattoos and are in the public domain.
  • The consortium does not aim or campaign to encourage, to discourage, or to limit tattoo use. 

The HTC by design and purpose is a collaboration by not more than 30 hand-picked experts at any point in time. This demarcated size is to optimize interactions and prevent group logistics of hampering agility. External academics can apply for membership, should openings develop. 

Expertise

Epidemiology, dermatology, immunology, toxicology, law, pathology, oncology, neuropathology, chemistry, materials science, nuclear imaging including PET, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Founding members

Associate members

Publications

For Example:

See our latest publications   (Jon Laman - PubMed)