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2026

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  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award
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Overview

Francesco Forastiere is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant body of work related to health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. Their contributions span multiple subfields including environmental engineering, speech and hearing, pollution, and automotive engineering.

Their research extensively covers topics such as air quality and health impacts, climate change and health impacts, air quality monitoring and forecasting, noise effects and management, energy and environment impacts, vehicle emissions and performance, and occupational and environmental lung diseases.

Among the recent publications authored or co-authored by Francesco Forastiere are the following:

  • Long-term exposure to low ambient air pollution concentrations and mortality among 28 million people: results from seven large European cohorts within the ELAPSE project, 2022, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Long term exposure to low level air pollution and mortality in eight European cohorts within the ELAPSE project: pooled analysis, 2021, BMJ
  • Long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution and selected health outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2022, Environment International
  • Long-term exposure to low-level ambient air pollution and incidence of stroke and coronary heart disease: a pooled analysis of six European cohorts within the ELAPSE project, 2021, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • WHO Air Quality Guidelines 2021-Aiming for Healthier Air for all: A Joint Statement by Medical, Public Health, Scientific Societies and Patient Representative Organisations, 2021, International Journal of Public Health

Frequently collaborating co-authors include:

  • Massimo Stafoggia
  • Barbara Hoffmann
  • Zorana Jovanovic Andersen
  • Evangelia Samoli
  • Bert Brunekreef

Their work is published in various academic venues, with a notable number of publications in:

  • PubMed
  • Environment International
  • Environmental Research
  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • European Respiratory Journal

Best Publications

  • Radon in homes and risk of lung cancer: collaborative analysis of individual data from 13 European case-control studies.

    S. Darby;D. Hill;A. Auvinen;J. M. Barros-Dios

  • Global estimates of mortality associated with long-term exposure to outdoor fine particulate matter

    Richard Burnett;Hong Chen;Mieczysław Szyszkowicz;Neal Fann

  • Air pollution and lung cancer incidence in 17 European cohorts : Prospective analyses from the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE)

    Ole Raaschou-Nielsen;Zorana Jovanovic Andersen;Rob Beelen;Evangelia Samoli

  • Effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on natural-cause mortality : An analysis of 22 European cohorts within the multicentre ESCAPE project

    Rob Beelen;Ole Raaschou-Nielsen;Massimo Stafoggia;Zorana Jovanovic Andersen

  • Outdoor Particulate Matter Exposure and Lung Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Ghassan B. Hamra;Neela Guha;Aaron Cohen;Francine Laden

  • Acute effects of particulate air pollution on respiratory admissions - Results from APHEA 2 project

    RW Atkinson;HR Anderson;J Sunyer;J Ayres

  • Expert position paper on air pollution and cardiovascular disease

    David E. Newby;Pier M. Mannucci;Grethe S. Tell;Andrea A. Baccarelli

  • Long term exposure to ambient air pollution and incidence of acute coronary events: prospective cohort study and meta-analysis in 11 European cohorts from the ESCAPE Project

    Giulia Cesaroni;Francesco Forastiere;Massimo Stafoggia;Zorana J Andersen

  • High Temperature and Hospitalizations for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Causes in 12 European Cities

    Paola Michelozzi;Gabriele Accetta;Manuela De Sario;Daniela D'Ippoliti

  • Ambient air pollution and low birthweight: a European cohort study (ESCAPE)

    Marie Pedersen;Lise Giorgis-Allemand;Claire Bernard;Inmaculada Aguilera

  • Long-Term Exposure to Urban Air Pollution and Mortality in a Cohort of More than a Million Adults in Rome

    Giulia Cesaroni;Chiara Badaloni;Claudio Gariazzo;Massimo Stafoggia

  • Co-morbidity contributes to predict mortality of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    R Antonelli Incalzi;L Fuso;M De Rosa;F Forastiere

  • Vulnerability to heat-related mortality: a multicity, population-based, case-crossover analysis.

    Massimo Stafoggia;Francesco Forastiere;Daniele Agostini;Annibale Biggeri

  • Impact of maternal body mass index and gestational weight gain on pregnancy complications: An individual participant data meta-analysis of European, North American and Australian cohorts

    Susana Santos;Ellis Voerman;Pilar Amiano;Henrique Barros

  • A joint ERS/ATS policy statement: what constitutes an adverse health effect of air pollution? An analytical framework

    George D. Thurston;Howard Kipen;Isabella Annesi-Maesano;John Balmes;John Balmes

  • Maternal body mass index, gestational weight gain and the risk of overweight and obesity across childhood: An individual participant data meta-analysis

    Ellis Voerman;Susana Santos;Bernadeta Patro Golab;Bernadeta Patro Golab;Pilar Amiano

  • African dust outbreaks over the Mediterranean Basin during 2001–2011: PM 10 concentrations, phenomenology and trends, and its relation with synoptic and mesoscale meteorology

    Jorge Pey;Xavier Querol;Andrés Alastuey;F. Forastiere

  • Short-Term Effects of Ambient Particles on Cardiovascular and Respiratory Mortality

    Antonis Analitis;Klea Katsouyanni;Konstantina Dimakopoulou;Evangelia Samoli

  • Nitrogen dioxide and mortality: review and meta-analysis of long-term studies.

    Annunziata Faustini;Regula Rapp;Francesco Forastiere

  • Short-Term Effects of PM10 and NO2 on Respiratory Health among Children with Asthma or Asthma-like Symptoms: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Gudrun Weinmayr;Elisa Romeo;Manuela De Sario;Stephan K. Weiland

  • Preterm birth, infant weight gain, and childhood asthma risk : A meta-analysis of 147,000 European children

    Agnes M M Sonnenschein-Van Der Voort;Lidia R. Arends;Johan C. De Jongste;Isabella Annesi-Maesano

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlo A. Perucci
Carlo A. Perucci National Health Service
Massimo Stafoggia
Massimo Stafoggia Karolinska Institute
Giulia Cesaroni
Giulia Cesaroni Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Bert Brunekreef
Bert Brunekreef Utrecht University
Jordi Sunyer
Jordi Sunyer Pompeu Fabra University
Klea Katsouyanni
Klea Katsouyanni National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Kees de Hoogh
Kees de Hoogh Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Gerard Hoek
Gerard Hoek Utrecht University
Andrea Ranzi
Andrea Ranzi Arpae Emilia-Romagna
Annette Peters
Annette Peters Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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