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Registration Fee
If you register by January 31st your early bird registration fee is $75. Beginning February 3rd, the cost is $100.
Goal
To provide a state-of-the art overview of new evidence relating to environmental risk factors and the development and exacerbation of asthma.
Target Audience
Government agencies, public health practitioners, members of the public, asthma educators, researchers, and air quality professionals.
Learning Objectives
At the completion of the workshop participants should be able to:
• Discuss the physiology of asthma, its general epidemiology and current understanding of the role of genetic and environmental factors.
• Provide examples of key research that has helped elucidate the role of environmental exposures in relation to asthma.
• Describe the current understanding regarding the role of specific environmental exposures in the etiology of asthma.
• Identify common and emerging approaches to estimate exposures to the above environmental agents in the epidemiologic studies of asthma.
Highlights
• What is asthma?
• Role of environmental exposure
• Role of genetics and epigenetics
• Outdoor air pollution as a cause of asthma
• Outdoor air and asthma exacerbation (pollution, wood
smoke, pollens and more)
• Air quality tools for managing asthma risks
• Asthma in a changing climate
• Indoor air and asthma exacerbation (environmental tobacco
smoke, cleaning agents, dust mites, beta D-glucan, and more)
• Personal and community interventions
