“In October, 2003, the Regional Asthma Management and Prevention Initiative (RAMP) convened a meeting on asthma and diesel in order to share the latest research, mitigation measures, community advocacy, policy changes and media advocacy. The following PowerPoint presentation by Meena Palaniappan, Senior Research Associate at the Pacific Institute outlines community-based research and advocacy efforts to reduce the burden of diesel. Please note that several of the photos in the presentation were removed due to file size constraints. Additional workshop materials can be found by searching for RAMP Diesel Workshop””.”””