Resources
Families USA Releases “Advancing Health Equity Through Community Health Workers and Peer Providers: Mounting Evidence and Policy Recommendations” Families USA has published a report examining the effectiveness and versatility of community health workers. The report utilizes new evidence from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s studies. In addition, it contains 12 equity-focused and evidence-based policy recommendations, and 4 recommendations on how to improve research. For more information and to view the report, click here.
- Families USA Releases “Advancing Health Equity Through Community Health Workers and Peer Providers: Mounting Evidence and Policy Recommendations”
- City Health Dashboard Provides Health and Related Data for Large US Cities
- EPA Releases Online Course, “Wildfire Smoke and Your Patients’ Health” with Continuing Education Credits
- EPA Releases “Supporting Healthy Houses of Worship: Effective, Affordable Measures to Protect the Health of Congregations and Staff”
- CITRIS Policy Lab Publishes Health, Wildfires & Climate Change in California White Paper
- Greenlining Institute and California’s Energy Efficiency for All Release “Equitable Building Electrification: A Framework for Powering Resilient Communities”
- National Center for Healthy Housing Releases “Why Partner with Energy Stakeholders and Programs?
- American Lung Association Releases Asthma Trends Brief
- E4TheFuture Releases Energy-Plus-Health Playbook
- Clearing the Air: An Asthma Toolkit for Healthy Schools Released
- RAMP Launches Project to Assess Health and Equity Implications of Freight Automation
- Leading the Way to Better Breathing: Managed Care Organizations and Asthma Home Visiting Services in California – a Tool for MCOs and Partners
Studies and Reports
Study Examines Effectiveness of Step-Up Therapy in Black Children and Adults with Asthma The September 2019 volume of the New England Journal of Medicine contains an article examining the impacts of long-acting beta-agonist (LABA) and increased glucocorticoids in black patients. Researchers conducted two prospective, randomized, double-blind trials, one with children and the other with adolescents and adults. Children’s Hospital of Oakland was one of the sites for this […]
- Study Examines Effectiveness of Step-Up Therapy in Black Children and Adults with Asthma
- Study Investigates Ventilation Rates in California Classrooms
- Effects of Community Health Workers on Asthma Health Outcomes
- Study Examines Public School Teacher Asthma Education
- Researchers Study Connections Between Depression, Anxiety, and Asthma-Related Emergency Department Visits
- The Impacts of Interactions of Neighborhood Social Conditions and Family Relationships on Childhood Asthma
- Feasibility of Incentives to Increase Adherence in High-Risk Children with Asthma
- Researchers Investigate Impacts of Infant Gut Microbial Compounds on Allergy and Asthma Risk
- Union of Concerned Scientists Release “Killer Heat in the United States: Climate Choices and the Future of Dangerously Hot Days”
- Investigation of Ultrafine Particle Exposure Linkages to Childhood Asthma Incidence
- Implications of Proposed Changes to Public Charge Immigration Rules on Children
- Study Examines Inhaler Carry and Use Among Children at School
Opportunities
EPA Accepting Applications for National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management; Deadline 1/31 The Environmental Protection Agency has announced applications are now open for the National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management. For 2020, there is a newly redesigned application that has been simplified and focuses on components of whole-community asthma care systems that coordinate public health, housing, environmental, clinical care, health care, and community partners to deliver […]
- EPA Accepting Applications for National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management; Deadline 1/31
- Funding Opportunity: EPA Environmental Justice Grants Now Open; Deadline 2/7
- Comment Period Now Open for Characteristics of Asthma Self-Management Education; Due 12/24
- Comment Period Now Open for the Revised Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma (EPR-3); Due 1/17
- Funding Opportunity: EPA Launches Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Cooperative Agreement Program; Application Deadline 2/7/2020
- A $15 million victory for people with asthma!
- 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