Peter BurneyPeter Burney is emeritus professor of respiratory epidemiology and public health at the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College, London, UK. He held posts as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader at the United Medical and Dental Schools f Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals and spent a year as a visiting associate professor in the department of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, USA.

He was Honorary Director of the Department of Health's Social Medicine and Health Services Research Unit 1994-2011 and Chairman for the Division of Primary Care and Public Health Sciences (KCL) 1998-2005. Since initiating the European Community Respiratory Health Survey in 1988 he has had leading roles on several international studies. The most recent involvement has been as principal investigator for the extension to the Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease (BOLD) to more low-income countries and BOLD II, a follow-up study. Read More Read Less