Peter Burney

Peter Burney FRCP FFPH FMedSci is a British epidemiologist.[1][2][3] 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.[4]

Peter Burney
Born1949
USA
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Known forEpidemiology of COPD
Epidemiology of Asthma
Epidemiology of Allergy
Scientific career
FieldsRespiratory Epidemiology
Public health
InstitutionsNational Heart & Lung Institute
Imperial College London
Websitehttps://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/p.burney

Education and career

He studied Modern History at University of Oxford, trained in Medicine at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School and then Public Health at St Thomas Hospital Medical School. He became the Chair in Public Health Medicine at United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas’ in 1995, and then Head of the Division of Public Health and Primary Care at King’s College London.[5] 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.[6] He moved to Imperial College London in 2006.[7]

Burney led several important and pioneering international collaborative studies on asthma and allergy, including the European Community Respiratory Health Survey (ECRHS)[8] and the GA2LEN[9] epidemiological study, and on COPD with the Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease (BOLD)[10] study.[11] As result of his work, he has provided evidence on asthma and allergy to the Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology in 2006[12] and has been interviewed by mainstream media.[13][14][15] In 2014, he contributed to a European Respiratory Society video about the Burden of COPD - ERS Vision.

Significant publications

References
  1. "Professor Peter GJ Burney MA MD FRCP FFPHM FMedSci". www.imperial.ac.uk.
  2. "Professor Peter Burney | The Academy of Medical Sciences". acmedsci.ac.uk.
  3. "Asthma researchers wrangle over safety inhalers". New Scientist.
  4. "Professor Peter Burney | The Academy of Medical Sciences". acmedsci.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-04-16.
  5. "Allergic to modern life". BBC. 12 February 2004.
  6. "Headlines@Hopkins".
  7. "Professor Peter Burney takes Emeritus status following 40 year career | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News.
  8. "ECRHS" (PDF).
  9. "Global Allergy and Asthma European Network".
  10. "Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease study".
  11. "The Richard Doll Seminars (19 November 2013)" (PDF). Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  12. "Science and Technology - Minutes of Evidence". parliament.uk. House of Lords.
  13. "Allergies reach epidemic levels in Europe". Tehran Times.
  14. "A glass of apple juice a day 'can help keep asthma away'". Evening Standard.
  15. "HEALTH WATCH: LUNG DISEASE". TV6TNT.
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