Pulmonary Epidemiology section carries out research activity in relation to respiratory physiopathology techniques applied to normal subjects and patients; allergology; controlled clinical cessation of smoking habit; clinical and economic appropriateness and drug-surveillance aspects regarding pharmacological prescriptions for respiratory diseases according to the clinical guidelines; occupational epidemiology in relation to studies on professionally exposed subjects; observational epidemiology in relation to studies on chronic respiratory diseases, mood disorders, anxiety, cardio-respiratory comorbidity and related risk factors; active implementation of the guidelines on the control of indoor risk factors for respiratory and allergic diseases in school settings.

 

Collaborations:

  • Institute of Biomedicine and Molecular Immunology (IBIM) CNR, Palermo

  • Institute of Information Science and Technoloy, CNR, Pisa

  • University of Pisa, Biology Department - Genetic Section

  • University of Pisa, Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Department –UO Pneumology 1st University

  • University of Pisa, Earth Science Department

  • University of Perugia, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine Section of Internal Medicine and Oncological Sciences

  •  University of Pavia, Ematology, Pneumology, Medical Cardiovascular Surgery Sciences – Pneumology Section ,Local Health Company Roma E – Epidemiology DepartmentLocal Health Company Roma C, Italian Society of Hospital Pharmacy and pharmaceutical services of healthcare companiesUniversity of Genova, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialities Department – Umberto I of Ancona Hospital Agency, Internal Medicine and Respiratory and Allergic Diseases Department Higher Institute of Health, Parasitic and Immunomediate Infectious Diseases DepartmentHigher Institute of Health, Immunology Unit

  • Smoke Alcohol and Drug Observatory

  • University of Siena, Department of Clinical Medicine and Immunological Sciences

  • Italian Society of Respiratory Medicine

  • Hospital Agency Clinical Institutes of Improvement, Occupational Medicine Department, Workers Preventive Medicine Service, Milan

  • S. Croce and Carle Hospital Agency, Specialistic Medicin Department, Pneumology Division,

  • Vimercate Health Agency, Operative Unit of Respiratory Physiopathology, Sesto S. Giovanni, Milan (MI)

  • "La Sapienza" University, Clinical Medicine Department, Respiratory Physiopathology Service,

  • Catholic University of Sacro Cuore, Integrated ComplexColumbus, Respiratory Physiopathology Service, Rome

  • EPidemiology of Allergic and Respiratory diseases (EPAR) Department, UMR-S 707 INSERM & UPMC, Faculté de Médecine Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (France)

  • Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain

  • Division of Biostatistics, Institute of Environmental Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

  • University of Arizona, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Tucson, AZ (USA)

  • European Respiratory Society (ERS)

  • American Thoracic Society (ATS)

  • Fundacio Caubet - Centro Internacional de Medicina Respiratoria Avanzada (CIMERA), Illes Balears, Bunyola, Mallorca (Spain)

  • Regional Environmental Centre – Country Office Hungary

  • Institute of Mechanical Engineering - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (Portugal)