Resources
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Supporting Asthma Awareness All May Long
The EPA offers helpful tools to support asthma awareness in your school or community for Asthma Awareness Month. Explore resources like an event planning kit, educational graphics on indoor asthma triggers and how to manage them, the Managing Asthma in the School Environment guide, and much more. Let’s work together to spread the word and…
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Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America Releases 2025 Allergy Capitals Report
The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) has released its 2025 edition of its Allergy Capitals Report. The report explores how challenging it is to live with seasonal allergies in the top 100 U.S. cities. More than 100 million people in the United States live with various types of allergies every year. Many of…
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Recording: Introduction to ASHRAE Guideline 44 – Protecting Building Occupants from Smoke During Wildfire and Prescribed Burn Events
On February 25, 2025, the US Environmental Protection Agency hosted an Indoor Air Quality Science Webinar featuring Guideline 44, Protecting Building Occupants from Smoke During Wildfire and Prescribed Burn Events, developed by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). The authors of Guideline 44 provided an overview followed by a question-and-answer session…
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American Lung Association Offers Trainings for Asthma Professionals
The American Lung Association (ALA) provides comprehensive training programs designed to equip asthma professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively support the communities they serve. ALA’s newest training, Patient with Asthma – A Case Study, guides participants through a detailed case study, demonstrating how to apply national asthma management guidelines for diagnosing, treating,…
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Asthma Control Tests
The Asthma Control Tests below can help determine whether an individual’s asthma is well controlled or poorly controlled. These asthma control test documents are from the website of Stanford Medicine Children’s Health.
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EPA Releases Pilot Indicators of Environmental Health Disparities
As part of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) FY2022-2026 Strategic Plan, the EPA released the pilot Indicators of Environmental Health Disparities resource. The intent of these indicators is to illustrate the disparities in key environmental and public health issues and describe EPA’s activities that may contribute to reductions in these disparities and overall health…
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ASHRAE Releases “Protecting Building Occupants from Smoke During Wildfire and Prescribed Burn Events” Guidelines; Free Public Access to a Read-Only Version Available through 2/11
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) has released Guideline 44, “Protecting Building Occupants from Smoke During Wildfire and Prescribed Burn Events.” This guideline offers recommendations for commercial, institutional, and multi-unit residential buildings to mitigate health impacts from smoke, making it the first of its kind to support building owners and managers…
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EPA’s Updated Ventilation and Respiratory Virus Guidance
The EPA has released updated guidance on indoor air quality (IAQ) strategies for preventing the spread of common respiratory viruses in homes, schools, offices, and commercial buildings. In addition to the virus that causes COVID-19, there are many other types of airborne respiratory viruses, including influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, that can spread more easily…
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Video Series Aims at Improving Indoor Air Quality
Improving indoor air quality is the goal of a video series developed by experts at the University of California, Davis in collaboration with the California Department of Public Health. Released in late 2024, the videos distill the science of air quality into concrete steps that people can take to remove pollutants from the place we…