This exciting all day event will include presentations and discussion of GAN Phase I papers and invited perspectives from asthma experts from New Zealand, the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), World Health Organization and others
The GAN Symposium will be held in Auckland, New Zealand on Monday 22nd January 2024 at the University of Auckland Grafton Campus
This symposium builds on GAN’s state of the art Global Asthma Report 2022 - www.globalasthmareport.org
Livestream and on-demand options will be available
The Symposium is free to attend.
Programme: | |
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Professor Emeritus Innes Asher, The University of Auckland, NZ | Reflections on 30 years of ISAAC and GAN |
Dr Sunia Foliaki, Massey University, Wellington, NZ | Spotlight on NZ: Ethnic differences in asthma in New Zealand, GAN Phase I |
Dr Sabrina Sapsford, The University of Auckland, NZ | Spotlight on NZ: Ethnic differences in eczema in New Zealand (GAN Phase I) - overcoming management obstacles |
Professor Cass Byrnes, The University of Auckland, NZ | Spotlight on NZ: Outcomes of severe lower respiratory infections in early life |
Professor Neil Pearce, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK | Childhood asthma time trends |
Professor Luis García-Marcos, Universidad de Murcia, Spain | The burden of asthma in children and adolescents: GAN Phase I |
Professor Chen-Yuan Chiang, The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Taiwan | The burden of asthma in adults: GAN Phase I |
Dr Nishtha Singh, Asthma Bhawan, Jaipur, India | The burden of asthma in India, the World’s most populous country |
Professor Eva Morales, Universidad de Murcia, Spain | Asthma management across the life course: GAN Phase I |
Improving access to affordable inhaled medicines | |
Dr Sarah Rylance* with introduction and Q&A by Dr Shami Jayasooriya, WHO | WHO priorities to improve global access to asthma care |
Dr Marie Stolbrink, Liverpool School of Tropical Medi- cine, UK | Review of inhaled medicines availability and affordability |
Dr Marie Stolbrink, Liverpool School of Tropical Medi- cine, UK | LMIC survey of availability, cost and affordability of inhaled medicines |
Dr Marie Stolbrink & Dr Shami Jayasooriya, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and University of Sheffield, UK | International stakeholder meeting |
Professor Asma El Sony*, Epilab, Khartoum, Sudan | International collaborations |
Dr Karen Bissell, The University of Auckland, NZ | Advocacy and the Global Asthma Report |
Professor Helen Reddel, GINA, Australia | GINA and the case for change |
Dr Shami Jayasooriya , University of Sheffield, UK | The role of clinical standards |
Professor Refiloe Masekela, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | Generating the evidence |
Panel discussion | A strategy for the future |
*Pre-recorded talk