Resources
Online Module “Environmental Asthma Triggers: A Training for Public Health Professionals” Now Available The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility’s Community Outreach and Engagement Core has released an online module titled “Environmental Asthma Triggers: A Training for Public Health Professionals.” The module “focuses on understanding asthma as a chronic lung disease,” as well as examining environmental exposures that worsen asthma. It […]
- Online Module “Environmental Asthma Triggers: A Training for Public Health Professionals” Now Available
- 2018 USAsthma Summit Video Now Available Online
- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s PolicyLab Releases Brief on Reducing Repeat Hospital Visits for Children with AsthmaChildren’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s PolicyLab Releases Brief on Reducing Repeat Hospital Visits for Children with Asthma
- Union of Concerned Scientists Releases Fact Sheet on Inequitable Exposure to Air Pollution from Vehicles in California
- American Lung Association Releases Coping with Wildfire Smoke
- Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America Releases ASTHMA Care for Adults Online Course
- HUD Releases Healthy Homes Youth App
- National League of Cities Releases Advancing City-Level Healthy Housing: Policies, Practices and Programs in Asthma & Lead – Strategies for Progress
- Children’s Health Fund Releases Video Series: Asthma–What you Need to Know
- National Center for Healthy Housing Releases Technical Briefs on Funding Community Health Worker Services
- California Breathing Releases Interactive County Asthma Data Tool
- American Lung Association Releases “Controlling Air Pollutants in Multi-Unit Housing”
Studies and Reports
Oral Magnesium and Asthma Management In the February 2019 Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, an article looks at the role of magnesium supplements for management of bronchial asthma. The authors of the articles conducted database searches for studies relating to oral magnesium supplements, and eight studies fit the criteria. While oral magnesium was found to improve lung function at week eight […]
- Oral Magnesium and Asthma Management
- Effects of Traffic-Related Air Pollution on Pediatric Asthma Cases
- The Role of the Gut Microbiome in Asthma
- Bill to Support Asthma Home Visits Advances in California Senate!
- Impact of Railyards on Asthma-Related Pediatric Emergency Room Visits
- Comparison of Indoor and Outdoor Particulate Matter on Children’s Lung Function
- Effects of Vitamin D on Asthma Symptoms in Obese Urban Children
- Study Examines Racial Gap in Production and Exposure to Air Pollution
- Effects of Smartphone Applications on Adherence in Asthma Self-Management
- Researchers Examine Effects of Airport-Associated Ultrafine Particles on Lung Function
- Effects of Medication Adherence on COPD and Asthma Patients
- Study Examines Links Between Pets and Respiratory Illness
Opportunities
Funding Opportunity: Comprehensive Public Health Approach to Asthma Control Through Evidence-Based Interventions; Deadline 5/31 RAMP is actively exploring this funding opportunity for work in California. If you are planning on pursuing this opportunity anywhere in the state, please let us know by contacting RAMP’s Associate Director, Joel Ervice, at joel@rampasthma.org. We’d appreciate the opportunity to coordinate and potentially collaborate. The Centers for Disease Control currently has a funding opportunity […]
- Funding Opportunity: Comprehensive Public Health Approach to Asthma Control Through Evidence-Based Interventions; Deadline 5/31
- Celebrate Healthy Schools in April
- 2019 Asthma Summit
- The Asian Pacific Environmental Network is Hiring a Policy Director
- American Lung Association Looking For Partners for “Year of Air Pollution & Health”
- CA Healthy Housing Coalition: 2019 Annual Meeting
- State of New Mexico Asthma Control Program Hiring Asthma Epidemiologist
- American Lung Association is Hiring Two Policy Specialist