Our Network
The Global Asthma Network currently has 381 centres in 137 countries and aims to have centres in all countries in the world. The Global Asthma Network is currently taking expressions of interest from new centres. We are particularly interested in centres from these countries. Click here to see the map.
The Inaugural UN International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies
The 7th of September marked the inaugural UN International Day of Clean Air for blue skies , a day to call upon governments, corporations, civil society and individuals to take action to reduce air pollution to protect human health. Read more
Global Asthma Reports making an impact
Global Asthma Reports are very popular. Between them the Global Asthma Reports have had a total of 201,402 downloads to date! Since first published, the downloads have been as follows:
The Global Asthma Report 2011 34,823
The Global Asthma Report 2014 93,548
The Global Asthma Report 2018 73,031
World Asthma Day 2020
Asthma and COVID-19
On this World Asthma Day everyone and everything we do is affected by the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Although this pandemic is a threat to us all, this threat is mitigated by global cooperation. The early and ongoing leadership by the World Health Organization has been a very important contributor. Actions within nations have been variable, and there are many examples of excellent leadership with unexpectedly good outcomes. The timing and extent of national actions has been a critical factor in controlling the disease.
Union statement on World Health Organization funding
Professor Guy Marks, president of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease and Global Asthma Steering Group member, has been quoted in the AFP urging USA President Donald Trump to reverse his "reckless decision". He said withdrawing funding would have consequences far beyond COVID-19 that could prove "catastrophic for WHO's other disease control programmes around the world". read more
COVID-19, asthma and other chronic respiratory diseases
Latest COVID-19 Information
The World Health Organization’s Global Alliance Against Chronic Respiratory Diseases has created this information site https://gard-breathefreely.org/covid19/ which is kept up to date.
What People With Asthma Need to Know
The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America has created a comprehensive page of coronavirus information for asthma patients which can be found here
GINA COVID-19 FAQs
The Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) has created a page of frequently asked questions regarding asthma management and COVID-19 which can be found here.
Latest GAN Newsletter available
The March 2020 GAN Newsletter is now available on the website. Included in the newsletter are articles on GAN Phase I update, The Union World Conference on Lung Health 2020, GAN Collaborators news, events and photos, GAN Visit to Jaipur, GAN Steering Group meeting in Hyderabad, The Union’s World Conference on Lung Health 2019 GAN Centres update and GAN & GAR website usage view newsletter
GAN Visit to Jaipur, India
GAN Steering Group members Innes Asher and Philippa Ellwood were privileged to visit the Asthma Bhawan in Jaipur hosted by Dr.Virendra Singh “Specialist of Allergy and Asthma”. While there they participated in a Patient education seminar at Rajasthan Hospital and presented at a General practitioners meeting and were very well received. Read more
GAN at The Union’s World Conference on Lung Health
The 2019 World Conference on Lung Health in Hyderabad, India was attended by GAN Steering Group members Innes Asher, Karen Bissell, Asma El Sony, Chiang Chen-Yuan, Guy Marks and Kevin Mortimer, where they made a number of contributions to the programme including “Calling time on disability and deaths in children”, “Asthma in African Adults: the Sudan perspective”, “Improving asthma care: the opportunities offered by combined corticosteroid/rapid onset bronchodilator inhalers used as required”, “Asthma: an emerging threat to health across the life course” and more. Read more
COVID-19, asthma and other chronic respiratory diseases
What People With Asthma Need to Know
The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America has created a comprehensive page of coronavirus information for asthma patients which can be found here
Latest COVID-19 Information
The World Health Organization’s Global Alliance Against Chronic Respiratory Diseases has created this information site covid 19 Dashboard which is kept up to date.
GINA COVID-19 FAQs
The Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) has created a page of frequently asked questions regarding asthma management and COVID-19 which can be found here.
Global Asthma Report 2018
The Global Asthma Report 2018 was officially launched at the 12th GARD Annual Meeting in Helsinki on 31 August 2018 and is available from www.globalasthmareport.org
Download the report
Funding and development partners
The Global Asthma Network received major funding from The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) from 2012-2015. It is also generously supported by funding from the following organisations:
- Global Asthma and Allergy Patient Platform
- Australia
- Asthma Australia
- Woolcock Institute of Medical Research
- France
- Aix Marseille University
- Georgia
- Center of Allergy & Immunology, Tbilisi
- Latvia
- Riga Stradins University
- New Zealand
- The Asthma and Respiratory Foundation of New Zealand
- Auckland Asthma Charitable Trust
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- University of Auckland
- AstraZeneca
- Spain
- University of Murcia
- Valencia University
- Sultanate of Oman
- The Oman Respiratory Society
- United Kingdom
- The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- St Georges University of London
- UK Medical Research Council
Funders of GAN Phase I Centres
Individual centres involved in GAN Phase I data collection were funded by the following organisations:
- Brazil, Uruguaiana
- Funded by Dr Marilyn Urrutia Pereira
- Cameroon, Yaounde
- Funded by Elvis Ndikum (95%) and from family, friends (5%)
- Denmark, Copenhagen
- Funded by Dr Lene Lochte using her Research Prize from the Grethe Stampe Legat (Grethe Stampe’s Grant) of Danish Society of Allergology administered by Astma-Allergi Danmark (Asthma-Allergy Denmark)
- India; Kottayam, New Delhi, Chandigarh, Bikaner, Jaipur, Lucknow, Kolkata, Pune, Mysuru
- GAN Phase I was undertaken by Asthma Bhawan in India which was supported by Cipla foundation.
- Iran, Karaj
- Alborz University of medical Sciences
- Kosovo, Gjakova
- Municipality of Gjakova and the Directorate for Health and Education
- Mexico, Puerto Vallarta
- Centro Universitario de la Costa, Universidad de Guadalajara
- New Zealand, Auckland
- Auckland Asthma Charitable Trust
- Nigeria, Ibadan
- funded by National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) (IMPALA, grant reference 16/136/35) using UK aid from the UK Government to support global health research
- Poland, Katowice
- Funded by the Medical University of Silesia
- South Africa, Cape Town
- SA Medical Research Council, Allergy Society of South Africa
- Spain, Salamanca
- Gerencia Regional de Salud. Junta de Castilla y León. España.
- Sociedad Española de Inmunología Clínica, Alergología y Asma Pediátrica. (SEICAP)
- Sri Lanka; Anuradhapura, Peradeniya
- University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
- Syria; Damascus, Lattakia
- Damascus: Syrian Private University
- Lattakia: Lattakia Medical Syndicate