Programme 3: Preventable Risk Factors

Leads: Savithri Wimalasekera, University of Sri Jayewardenepura & Linda Bauld, University of Edinburgh

About Programme 3: Preventable Risk Factors

This programme of work focuses on the primary prevention of risk factors for respiratory conditions - including tobacco smoking and exposure to poor air quality - which are estimated to underlie many million deaths globally each year.

The projects in this area are focusing on the development of:

an air pollution ‘early warning system’ to help those with respiratory conditions to take actions to improve their health and quality of life
an intervention to assist TB patients, who are most adversely impacted, to quit smoking and improve their health.

People

This programme is co-led by:

Professor Savithri Wimalasekera, Associate Professor in Physiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Linda Bauld, Chair of Public Health, University of Edinburgh

Ai Keow Lim is RESPIRE’s Programmes and Trial Manager

Chun Lin is RESPIRE’s Air Quality Programme Coordinator