David Halpin

Professor Halpin is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Exeter and at the Observational and Pragmatic Research Institute, Singapore. He studied at Oxford University (first class honours) & St Thomas Hospital Medical School, and undertook a D.Phil. at Oxford University, between his pre-clinical and clinical training. He trained in respiratory medicine at the Brompton Hospital in London. He is a member of the GOLD Board of Directors and Science Committee, and previously led the development of the NICE COPD Guideline. He sits on the Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD) Steering Committee and on the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS) Executive Committee. He has published extensively and frequently lectures on COPD at meetings around the world. He led the recent work at the UN and WHA to ensure that COPD and asthma were specifically included in the UN declaration on NCDs.