ERS International Congress, Madrid, 2019: highlights from the Epidemiology and Environment Assembly

Mateusz Jankowski; André F S Amaral

doi:10.1183/23120541.00320-2019

ERS International Congress, Madrid, 2019: highlights from the Epidemiology and Environment Assembly

ERJ Open Res. 2020 Feb 3;6(1):00320-2019. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00320-2019. eCollection 2020 Jan.

Authors

Mateusz Jankowski¹, André F S Amaral²

Affiliations

¹ Dept of Epidemiology, School of Medicine in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland.
² National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.

Abstract

At the European Respiratory Society's International Congress of 2019, which was held in Madrid, Spain, there were several sessions with exciting poster and oral presentations within the fields of epidemiology and tobacco control. This article is the summary of two of these sessions. One was on the use of Big Data in epidemiology and the other, on the global burden of respiratory disease and tobacco.

Publication types

Review