Group leader, Prof. Giovanni Viegi, Director of IBIM-CNR. President Elect (2004- 2005), President (2005- 2006), Past President (2006-2007) of the European Respiratory Society (ERS), he has been leader of EPAP Group at IFC-CNR realizing the two largest respiratory epidemiological longitudinal studies on general population samples in Italy (Po Delta area and Pisa-Cascina) and other epidemiological studies on work-related respiratory illness, community acquired pneumonia, on cardiorespiratory and psychiatric co-morbidity and on smoking cessation, through research grants from: CNR, Italian Electric Energy Authority (ENEL), European Commission, Italian Ministries of Labour and of Health. Dr. Viegi published 271 original articles in Italian, English and French.
Expertise: Respiratory and environmental epidemiology
Role in the project: Responsible of Partner no. 20, leader of WP14 and contributor to WP20
E-mail: viegi@ibim.cnr.it
Websites: http://www.cnr.it/sitocnr/Englishversion/Englishversion.html
