DrAndre Amaral

Dr Andre Amaral is an epidemiologist at the National Heart and Lung Institute, where he leads a research team whose work focuses on understanding the causes of chronic respiratory diseases and poor lung function in populations around the globe. He is also interested in understanding the epidemiology of small lung syndrome and the mechanisms underlying the relationship between small lungs and cardiometabolic diseases across ethnic groups and world regions.

Large population-based studies, such as the multinational Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease (BOLD) cohort study, are central to the work of Dr Amaral's team. The evidence generated by his team is used to advance the knowledge of chronic respiratory diseases and to inform policy and allocation of resources.

As Project Lead of the BOLD cohort study, Co-Lead of the Multi-morbidity Network in sub-Saharan Africa and Steering Committee member of the CHEST Africa study, he collaborates with excellent research partners across Africa, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean, Europe and North America.

Dr Amaral is the Chair for the Epidemiology Group of the European Respiratory Society and Associate Editor for the International Journal of Epidemiology and BMJ Open Respiratory Research.

He currently leads the Study Design module of the MSc Cardiovascular and Respiratory Healthcare at Imperial College London, and serves as Faculty member of the American Thoracic Society and Pan-African Thoracic Society Methods in Epidemiologic, Clinical, and Operations Research (MECOR) Programme.

The goal of Dr Amaral is to contribute to the prevention of chronic respiratory diseases and reduction of mortality worldwide as well as to increased research capacity in respiratory epidemiology in low resource settings.

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