Asthma Webinars

Asthma webinars present the latest knowledge and information from leading experts and asthma management program champions from across the country. Offered at no-cost, webinars are an opportunity to discover state of the art tools and resources, learn effective strategies in asthma program design and delivery, engage the experts through question and answer sessions, and contribute to the discussion through interactive polling features.

Whether you recently attended a webinar or need more information, access the archived presentation materials and audio/visual recordings below to learn more about home environmental interventions, best practices for asthma management, program evaluation basics, housing code enforcement, and more.

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Communities in Action: Leadership Voices Sharing Best Practices
Anne Kelsey Lamb, Regional Asthma Management and Prevention; Tracey Mitchell, EPA Indoor Environments Division; and BJ Biskupiak and Mary Anderson, Montana Asthma Control Program
14 August 2024

The expert panel spoke about—

- Serious and growing risks from wildfire smoke to people with asthma and other respiratory diseases.

- How to use data, equipment, and community networks to prepare to deliver IEDOH solutions for people with asthma and others at risk from wildfire smoke.

- Communities financing and delivering indoor air cleaners, replacement filters, environmental education, and in-home counseling for people with asthma during wildfire air pollution spikes.

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Community-based Asthma Management
Anne Kelsey Lamb, M.P.H., Director, Regional Asthma Management and Prevention (RAMP); BJ Biskupiak, Asthma Control Program Manager, Montana Asthma Control Program; Mary Anderson, Wildfire Smoke Coordinator, Montana Asthma Control Program; Queen Eze, M.P.H., PMP, Healthy Breathing Project Manager, Esperanza Community Housing (Los Angeles), and Tracey Mitchell, Indoor Environments Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
14 August 2024

Attendees will learn about—

- Serious and growing risks from wildfire smoke to people with asthma and other respiratory diseases. 

- How to use data, equipment, and community networks to prepare to deliver IEDOH solutions for people with asthma and others at risk from wildfire smoke. 

- Communities financing and delivering indoor air cleaners, replacement filters, environmental education, and in-home counseling for people with asthma during wildfire air pollution spikes.

Visit Air Cleaners for Asthma Programs: Reducing Exposure to Wildfire Smoke to view Regional Asthma Management and Prevention's resources from the webinar.

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Communities in Action: Leadership Voices Sharing Best Practices
Eric Frohmberg, Senior Health Program Manager, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Tracey Mitchell, Indoor Environments Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
16 May 2024

 

Meet the 2024 winner of the National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management, the Maine Asthma Prevention and Control (MAPC) Program! Learn about this program’s award-winning strategies, strong community partnerships, and use of asthma surveillance to drive improvement and sustainability!

Hear Eric Frohmberg, Senior Health Program Manager of MAPC, share how the program fostered a culture of cross-program collaboration to develop and expand asthma control services in the state of Maine, established the Maine In-Home Asthma Education Program (HAEP), and promote a culture of evaluation to improve program efficacy and demonstrate improved asthma outcomes.

Community-based Asthma Management
Neal Wilson, Ph.D., Associate Director, Center for Economic Information, University of Missouri–Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri; Principal Investigator, The Impact of a Weatherization Program on the Health Outcomes for Children with Asthma ; Anne Kelsey Lamb, M.P.H., Director, Regional Asthma Management and Prevention (a program of the Public Health Institute), Oakland, California; Kevin Kennedy, M.P.H., CIEC, Owner and Instructor, Healthy Indoors Training & Consulting LLC, Lawrence, Kansas; Co-author, The Impact of a Weatherization Program on the Health Outcomes for Children with Asthma
7 March 2024

 

This is the second webinar in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Indoor Environments Division’s new webinar series: Solving for the Indoor Environmental Determinants of Health (IEDOH) in Asthma.

In this webinar, "Weatherization’s Effects on Pediatric Asthma: Evidence From a Natural Experiment," learn from experts about—

  • Maximizing impact with limited funds by partnering with such programs as weatherization, whose primary interventions (i.e., air sealing and insulating homes) are not common in asthma home visiting but may be widely beneficial for asthma.
  • Evidence from an important natural experiment in Kansas City, Missouri, on the effects of weatherization and improved thermal comfort in homes on pediatric asthma outcomes.
Community-based Asthma Management
Carolyn Ferguson, Environmental Justice Manager, Red Hook Initiative; • Kara Smith, LMSW, Red Hook Community Health Network Manager, Red Hook Initiative; Adam Haber, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Computational Biology & Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Elizabeth A. Samuels, M.D., M.P.H., M.H.S., Associate Professor, UCLA Emergency Medicine; Ellen Hutti, M.P.H., Epidemiologist, St. Louis County Department of Public Health
25 October 2023

 

This is the first webinar in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Indoor Environments Division’s new webinar series: Solving for the Indoor Environmental Determinants of Health (IEDOH) in Asthma.

In the first webinar, "Using Data to Prioritize In-Home IEDOH Interventions," learn from experts about

  • Asthma and environmental data collection and analysis from three different perspectives.
  • Potential opportunities to use data to prioritize in-home environmental interventions and improve indoor environments for people with asthma.

Speaker Contact Info:

Carolyn Ferguson - carolyn@rhicenter.org
Kara Smith - kara@rhicenter.org
Adam Haber - ahaber@hsph.harvard.edu
Elizabeth A. Samuels - lizsamuels@ucla.edu 
Ellen Hutti - ehutti@stlouiscountymo.gov

Community-based Asthma Management
Moderator: Tracey Mitchell, RRT, AE-C, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Speaker: Cristine Rameker, M.P.H., Wisconsin Asthma Program Manager, Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Carrie Tomasallo, M.P.H., Ph.D., Environmental Epidemiology and Surveillance Section Manager, Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Megan Elderbrook, M.P.H., CHES, Wisconsin Asthma Program Epidemiologist, Wisconsin Department of Health Services
23 May 2023

During Asthma Awareness Month each May, EPA recognizes leading asthma management programs for their in-home interventions through the National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management. The 2023 winner is the Wisconsin Department of Health Services' Asthma Program!

Learn how the Wisconsin Asthma Program's successful strategies can apply to your own program. 

Community-based Asthma Management
Moderator: Tracey Mitchell, RRT, AE-C, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Speaker: Michael Kent, Hazardous Materials Ombudsman for Contra Costa Health Services
29 March 2023

Hear Michael Kent, Hazardous Materials Ombudsman for Contra Costa Health Services, discuss his reflections on building a county-level model for reimagining asthma care, climate resilience and equity in Contra Costa County, California, where cross-sector health care and weatherization partners address the indoor environmental determinants of health (IEDOH) to improve community asthma outcomes. 

This session will highlight one model for connecting solutions in clinical asthma care and health care payments with housing, energy services and public health home visiting to address IEDOH in low-quality housing where children and adults are disproportionately exposed to air pollution and environmental triggers that exacerbate asthma. We will spotlight population health innovations that proactively identify and seek to reduce household exposures, particularly where asthma health burden is disproportionate.

Learn about Contra Costa’s strategies and how they can inform your program!

Community-based Asthma Management
Andrew Beck, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and Attending Physician, Divisions of General and Community Pediatrics and Hospital Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Lisa K. Crosby, D.N.P., APRN, CNP, Advanced Practice Provider Clinical Director for Primary Care, School-Based Health Centers and Outpatient Medical/Surgical Subspecialties, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Patrick H. Ryan, Ph.D., M.S., Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine; Maryse Amin, Ph.D., Assistant Health Commissioner, Cincinnati Health Department
13 December 2022

This is the second webinar in EPA’s three-part series on solutions for addressing indoor environmental determinants of health.

Experts from the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Health Department discussed—

  • Data and analysis solutions that communities can use to identify where indoor environmental factors may be contributing disproportionately to asthma health burden.
  • Population health solutions designed to proactively identify at-risk children, connect them to clinical services, and reduce their household exposures to asthma triggers and air pollution indoors.
Sustainable Financing
Moderator: Tracy Washington Enger, Indoor Environments Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Kate Hastings, Senior Policy Expert, The Scientific Consulting Group, Inc., Lori Copan Chief, Exposure Prevention and Education Section, Center for Healthy Communities, California Department of Public Health, Dana Durham Chief, Managed Care, Quality and Monitoring Division, California Department of Health Care Services
13 September 2022

 

Learn from state experts about innovative approaches for financing environmental asthma home visits within Medicaid.

Participants will learn about—

  • Technical solutions that state health care policymakers and community partners are pioneering to improve asthma outcomes, reduce health disparities and cultivate health equity.
  • Innovations to address indoor environmental determinants of health (IEDOH) through clinic and community integration, such as asthma home visits with environmental interventions for children who need them for asthma control.
  • Ways to collaborate between health care, public health, housing, community development, energy and others to put the latest IEDOH policies and science to work to improve asthma.
Community-based Asthma Management
Moderator: Tracey Mitchell, RRT, AE-C, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Nichole Shepard, M.P.H., EP-C, Asthma & Healthy Aging Program Manager, Utah Department of Health, Brian Roach, Assistant Director, Division of Medicaid and Health Financing, Utah Department of Health, Andrea M. Jensen, CHES®, AE-C, Asthma Program Coordinator, Utah County Health Department
24 May 2022
Learn how the Utah Department of Health Asthma Program—
 
Expanded the reach, effectiveness and sustainability of comprehensive asthma control services in Utah.
 
Developed partnerships and a screening protocol to address high-risk clients’ social, mental, physical and emotional needs to help control their asthma.
 
Established a home-visiting program shown to improve asthma outcomes, including a 75 percent reduction in asthma-related emergency department visits.
 
Worked with payers to seek sustainable financing for the Utah Asthma Home Visiting Program, which included conducting a return-on-investment analysis that secured additional funding to expand the program to Medicaid members in rural fee-for-service areas.

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