The Global Asthma Network currently has 384 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 December 2020 GAN Newsletter is now available on the website. Included in the newsletter are articles on GAN Phase I update, New GAN publications, Congratulations to GAN members and new GAN Steering Group members, Global Asthma Report update, GAN Centres update and GAN & GAR website usage view newsletter
The Global Asthma Network has updated known Asthma Management Guidelines used around the world, through its most recent survey conducted in 2019/20. These guidelines are now available for download... Read more
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 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
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.
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
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.
The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America has created a comprehensive page of coronavirus information for asthma patients which can be found here
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.
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
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
The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America has created a comprehensive page of coronavirus information for asthma patients which can be found here
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.
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.
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
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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:
Individual centres involved in GAN Phase I data collection were funded by the following organisations: