Global burden of respiratory disease and tobacco: an update

Lunchtime session
Chairs: J. Soriano (Madrid, Spain), M. Montes De Oca (Caracas, Venezuela)
Aims: to summarise recent findings of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) and other international initiatives about respiratory disease; to describe new developments in respiratory disease and other respiratory conditions; to expand the network of Global Burden of Disease respiratory collaborators.

Global burden of respiratory disease in 2017 and 2019: how can it be improved further? V. Gupta (Seattle, United States of America)
Estimates and future directions in Global burden of disease tobacco estimation L. Sorio FLor (Seattle, United States of America)
Using Global Burden of Disease respiratory estimates at the national and subnational levels P. Burney (London, United Kingdom)