Working Together to Reduce the Burden of Asthma

Innovative Paths to Sustainable Asthma Care

Discover how communities across the country are securing long-term funding for home-based asthma services. RAMP’s new resource, developed in partnership with the National Center for Healthy Housing, highlights innovative programs and policy successes that are shaping the future of asthma care.

Innovative Paths to Sustainable Asthma Care

Discover how communities across the country are securing long-term funding for home-based asthma services. RAMP’s new resource, developed in partnership with the National Center for Healthy Housing, highlights innovative programs and policy successes that are shaping the future of asthma care.

Our mission is to reduce the burden of asthma with a focus on health equity. Emphasizing both prevention and management, we build capacity, create linkages, and mobilize networks to advocate for policy and systems changes targeting the root causes of asthma disparities.

Policy Action Alerts

  • The National Asthma Control Program Is Still at Risk; Help Protect This Valuable Resource

    Like many of you, we continue to track the federal funding landscape and to advocate for funding for programs that improve the lives of people with asthma. Today, we’re sharing an update and some additional actions that we can all take. We’ve shared before that the future of the National Asthma Control Program (NACP) is…

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  • Protect and Advocate for the National Asthma Control Program

    Created in 1999, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Asthma Control Program (NACP) has helped to improve the quality of asthma clinical care, increased the effectiveness of asthma management in school, supported policies to reduce air pollution, and strengthened systems to sustain asthma home visiting services.   Those gains are now at extreme risk:…

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  • The Dual Threat: Wildfire Smoke and Extreme Heat

    The increased frequency and severity of recent wildfire smoke events has had a major impact on those with asthma, severely limiting their activities and increasing the risk of asthma exacerbations, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations.  In response, RAMP has created a range of tools to help support people with asthma prepare for and limit the…

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Advancing the Role of CHWs and Promotoras in Asthma Management:

What We’re Doing

Promoting Asthma Management

Asthma Action Plans

An asthma self-management tool available in four languages

California Asthma Home
Visiting Program Directory

Designed to help providers, plans, and others connect with asthma home visiting programs in their communities

Reducing Exposure to Wildfire Smoke

We are committed to helping asthma stakeholders prepare for wildfire smoke events, which are becoming increasingly common in California and elsewhere.

Explore Asthma Resources

  • Study Examines the Cost-Effectiveness of Stock Epinephrine for Anaphylaxis in US Summer Camps

    With half a million children affected by food allergies attending US summer camps, access to emergency epinephrine is critical. A study, released by the American Academy of Pediatrics, uses a cost-effectiveness model to demonstrate that stocking epinephrine at camps is the most effective and cost-effective strategy for managing anaphylaxis. Stock epinephrine not only reduces hospitalizations…

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  • Study Investigates Maternal Asthma and Adverse Perinatal Outcomes

    A study, released by the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in July 2025, analyzed 434,068 pregnancies in Alberta, Canada, between October 2009 and December 2018, and found that maternal asthma significantly increases the risk of preterm birth, low birth weight, and cesarean delivery. Women with active asthma during delivery faced the highest risks, followed…

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  • Study Examines How Unconscious Bias Can Affect Treatment Decisions Among Primary Care Physicians and Pulmonologists

    A CHEST Clinical Perspectives study, released during the summer of 2024, investigated how unconscious bias may influence treatment decisions for patients with uncontrolled asthma. Researchers surveyed over 300 pulmonologists and primary care physicians, focusing on differences in treatment approaches based on patient demographics and socioeconomic backgrounds.  The study suggests that unconscious bias, especially related to…

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  • Cohort Study Linking Early-Life Exposure to Plastic Additives with Increased Risk of Childhood Allergies 

    An article published in July 2025 by the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology examines the relationship between early-life exposure to plastic additives—specifically phthalates and bisphenols—and the development of allergic conditions in young children. The article, “Phthalates and Bisphenols Early-Life Exposure, and Childhood Allergic Conditions: A Pooled Analysis of Cohort Studies,” draws on data…

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Regional Asthma Management and Prevention
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