Jordi Sunyer Deu
Head of the Child Health Programme
Healthcare
ISGlobal Barcelona Institute for Global Health
Spain
Biography
He has been the Co-director of the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology in Barcelona. Now he is the Child Health Programme Coordinator at ISGlobal. Next to it he is a professor in Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He is the founder and chair of the INMA birth cohort in Spain and principal investigator of several international studies including the ERC Advanced Grant BREATHE: BRain dEvelopment and Air polluTion ultrafine particles in scHool children.
Research Interest
His main research is about the environmental early life origins of neurodevelopment and cardio respiratory diseases.