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The Global Asthma Network (GAN) is delighted to invite you to attend the

Global Asthma Network Symposium 2024:
Improving access to affordable inhaled medicines for all

22 January 2024
Auckland, New Zealand

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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.

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Global Asthma Network Symposium 2024

Programme:

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

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