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Provides integrated administrative co-ordination of care for children identified with asthma, helping to get them to services and care via the Philadelphia Allies Against Asthma Lnk Line.

The Northern Manhattan Asthma Basics for Children (ABC) Initiative collaborates with community care organizations to empower parents to better manage their children's asthma.

Children's Health Center is a free standing, non-profit primary care clinic and the primary training site for the UCSF Fresno pediatric residents and rotating medical students. The clinic is the medical home for the majority of the underprivileged, underserved, under insured, children from poor income, urban population of the Fresno metro area. Our asthma program focuses on patient education, provider education and Continuous Quality Improvement of our asthma services. Through two successive State funded asthma initiatives from 2005 to 2009 (BPCA and IAC) we have successfully implemented changes in our asthma care practices with significant impact on the asthma care standards, reduced hospitalization rates, ED visits, and improved Quality of Life in asthmatic children.

The Center for Childhood Asthma in the Urban Environment (CCAUE) Community Outreach and Translational Core aims to identify and evaluate strategies for translating and applying their scientific findings into information for consumers, policy makers and clinical professionals.

The Partnership for Asthma Trigger-free Homes (PATH) is a study targeting low-income, minority populations that, through education intervention, is designed to improve knowledge about asthma and promote behaviors in adults that can reduce indoor asthma triggers.

As part of the National Environmental Education Foundation’s (NEEF) Pediatric Asthma Initiative, a faculty champion in the region is taking a leadership role in integrating environmental management of pediatric asthma into education and practice at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and throughout Region 6.

As part of the National Environmental Education Foundation’s (NEEF) Pediatric Asthma Initiative, a faculty champion in the region is taking a leadership role in integrating environmental management of pediatric asthma into education and practice at the Medical University of South Carolina and throughout Region 4.

As part of the National Environmental Education Foundation’s Pediatric Asthma Initiative, a faculty champion in region 10 is taking a leadership role in integrating environmental management of pediatric asthma into education and practice at the University of Washington and throughout Region 10. The faculty champion is training other faculty members, students, residents, and health care professi

As part of the National Environmental Education Foundation’s (NEEF) Pediatric Asthma Initiative, a faculty champion in the region is taking a leadership role in integrating environmental management of pediatric asthma into education and practice at the University of Washington and throughout Region 10.

As part of the National Environmental Education Foundation’s (NEEF) Pediatric Asthma Initiative, a faculty champion in the region is taking a leadership role in integrating environmental management of pediatric asthma into education and practice at the Naval Medical Center San Diego and throughout Region 9.