RAMP envisions healthy communities where asthma is reduced and well-managed, and the social and environmental inequities that contribute to the unequal burden of the disease for low-income communities and communities of color are eliminated.
RAMP’s 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.
Our goals include:
- Stable and Healthy Housing: Advance comprehensive policies on housing quality, affordability and tenant protections.
- Healthy Air for All: Shape policies to reduce air pollution in inequitably burdened communities.
- Health Care Equity: Increase access to prevention-oriented services within health care, and advance workforce development for asthma professionals.
To fulfill our mission and vision, and in support of our goals, RAMP utilizes the following core strategies:
- Build capacity: RAMP keeps the asthma field abreast of best practices, opportunities and research. By disseminating tools, providing strategic guidance, and facilitating technical assistance, RAMP increases our collective impact on reducing the inequitable burden of asthma.
- Create linkages: RAMP creates linkages among partners and topics to enhance collaboration and effectiveness.
- Mobilize networks to advance policy and systems change: RAMP advocates—and lifts the voices of our asthma networks and partners—for policy and systems changes to address asthma, asthma disparities and social and environmental inequities.