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From: Remembering the forgotten non-communicable diseases

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Peter Burney is Professor of Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London. Until 2006 he was Chair of Public Health and Primary Care at King's College London. In the late 1980s he started the European Community Respiratory Health Survey to study asthma and allergies in adults, mostly in Western Europe. Currently he co-ordinates the Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease Study, a study of chronic obstructive lung disease mostly in low and middle income countries.

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