Peter Burney
British epidemiologist
Peter Burney is a British epidemiologist. He is emeritus professor of respiratory epidemiology and public health at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences since 2001.
Education and career
He studied Modern History at University of Oxford, trained in Medicine at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School and then Public Health with Walter W. Holland in the Department of Community Medicine, St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London. He became the Chair in Public Health Medicine at United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals in 1995, and then Head of the Division of Public Health and Primary Care at King's College London. He also led the Social Medicine and Health Services Research Unit, which was funded by the Department of Health. In 1996, he was Chair of the Respiratory Disease Committee of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. He moved to Imperial College London in 2006.
Burney led several important and pioneering international collaborative studies on asthma and allergy, including the European Community Respiratory Health Survey (ECRHS) and the GA2LEN epidemiological study, and on COPD with the Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease (BOLD) study. The BOLD study is now led by André Amaral.
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