Josep M. Antó received his Degree in Medicine in 1975 and his PhD in 1990 (Epidemiological Investigations of Asthma Epidemics; Extraordinary Award) from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He has been working at the IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute) (1988-2005) as Chair of the Respiratory and Environmental Health Research Unit (1996-2005) and Director (2004-2005). He has been Director of the CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (2007-2010). He has been Principal Visiting Fellow at the National Heart and Lung Institute (1994, London, UK).  He has been Director of Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) (2005-2016). Since 1998 he is Professor of Medicine at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) where he has served as Vice-rector for Research (2002-2004). Since 2016 he is currently the Scientific Director of Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).
 
He is and has been a member of the advisory and editorial boards in several journals including the American Journal of Epidemiology, Thorax, European Journal of Public Health, European Respiratory Journal, Environmental Health (current) and European Journal of Epidemiology (current). Among other awards he has received the Cournand Lecture (European Respiratory Society, 1994), the Manuel Tapia Conference (Sociedad Española de Neumología y Cirurgia Torácica, 1999), the Medals Narcis Monturiol and Josep Trueta (Generalitat de Catalunya, 1995 and 2009), the Lecture Alice Hamilton Ground Rounds (University of San Francisco, 2009), the Congress Chair (European Respiratory Society, 2010) and the Fellowship of the ERS (Foundation European Respiratory Society, 2014).