Acknowledgements

This study, which was finalised before the COVID-19 pandemic, was produced by multiple experts over a period of time up to and including 2019. We would like to thank the following people for peer reviewing each of the core chapters: Matteo Cesari, Specialist in Geriatrics and Gerontology, Professor at the University of Toulouse, France; Ruth Gilbert, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, England; Chris Harrison, National Clinical Director for Cancer, NHS England; Nicholas Hopkinson, Reader in Respiratory Medicine and Honorary Consultant Physician, National Heart and Lung Institute, Royal Brompton Hospital, England; Gavin Lavery, Clinical Director, HSC Safety Forum, Belfast, Northern Ireland; Kenneth Fleming, Senior Adviser for Pathology, Centre for Global Health, NCI, USA and Emeritus Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, England; Martin O’Donnell, Professor of Translational Medicine, NUI Galway, Ireland; and Jane Young, Consultant Radiologist, Whittington Hospital, England.

We gratefully acknowledge the very helpful and insightful comments provided by Antonio Duran and Patrick Jeurissen on the full volume.

We would like to thank Sarah Cook for copy-editing and Jonathan North and Caroline White for the production of this book.