Josep Maria Antó

Josep M. Antó Boqué, MD, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and Senior Research Professor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). Trained in medicine and epidemiology, he served as Chair of Respiratory and Environmental Health at IMIM and was a Principal Visiting Fellow at the National Heart and Lung Institute in London. He was the founding director of the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) and served as ISGlobal’s Scientific Director until 2019. An internationally recognized authority on planetary health, asthma epidemiology, and environmental medicine, Dr. Antó has served on editorial boards for leading journals like Thorax and the American Journal of Epidemiology. His distinguished medical career has been recognized with the Narcís Monturiol Medal and the Josep Trueta Medal for scientific merit.