Community Education
The Asthma Education Summit is a yearly event. It brings together health care providers, school representatives, faith-based organizations and other community-based organizations. The summit provides asthma information and promotes asthma education.
Information on the 2022 Summit will be posted here when available.
Past summits have included lectures, discussions and workshops around the following topics:
- Asthma Management and Triggers
- The Benefits Community Health Workers Bring to Asthma Management
- Managing Asthma in School
- Asthma and Housing
- Green Cleaning
- Spirometry and Asthma
- Managing COVID-19 and Asthma
- Comorbidity of Asthma with Other Health Issues
- Environmental Influences on Asthma
- Tobacco and Vaping
- Participating in Research
Presentations from 2021 Asthma Education Summit
Comorbidity of Asthma with Other Health Issues
Louise Giles, MD, FRCPC
UChicago Medicine
Learn about medical conditions that may co-exist with asthma and how to manage them.
Panel: Environmental Influences on Asthma
Sola Olopade, MD, MPH, UChicago Medicine
Rob Rottersman, MS, CIH, Ramboll
Laura Garcia, Metropolitan Tenants Organization
Susan Mudd, JD, Environmental Law & Policy Center
Understand how environmental factors impact asthma and learn ways that could help children lessen the burden.
Asthma and Vaping
Nicholas Martin, MPH
American Heart Association
Learn about vaping, the dangers of vaping, and resources for quitting.
Why Participate in Research?
Valerie Press, MD, MPH
UChicago Medicine
Learn about the benefits of conducting and participating in research and how to recruit research participants.