2024


Annual Report, General Meeting and GAAPP Summit.

Board updates:

  • Tonya Winders was officially voted as President. This is the last of her 3 terms.
  • Vildana Mujkic was voted to be the secretary as the Vice President role is not executive and requires 1 year of board experience.

2023


Annual Report, General Meeting, Scientific Meeting, Global Respiratory Summit, and Audited Financial Report:

Board updates:

  • Migdalia Denis was officially voted as a Secretary until the next elections for a 3-year cycle during the 2023 AGM in Hamburg (Germany).
  • Ugochukwu Nwangoro was appointed as Vice-secretary. His appointment will be extended to a full 3-year term if approved during the 2024 AGM.
  • Dr. Vũ Trần Thiên Quân was appointed as Vice-treasurer. His appointment will be extended to a full 3-year term if approved during the 2024 AGM.

2022


General Meeting, Scientific Meeting, Global Respiratory Summit, and Audited Financial Report:

Board updates:

  • Migdalia Denis was appointed temporary Secretary by the board in October 2022 to replace Vanessa Foran until the 2023 AGM that will be put to members’ vote

2021

General Meeting, Virtual Scientific Meeting, Global Respiratory Summit, and Audited Financial Report:

Board elections (virtual)

  • Tonya Winders, USA, President
  • Kristine Whorlow, Australia, 1st Vice President
  • Isaack Sunte, Kenya, Secretary  (voluntarily stepped down in August 2021)
  • Vanessa Fora, Canada, Vice Secretary (voluntarily stepped down in September 2022)
  • Otto Spranger, Austria, Treasurer
  • Dr.Ashok Gupta, India Vice-Treasurer

2020

Activity report, Virtual Scientific Meeting and Global Respiratory Summit:

2019

Activity report, Scientific Meeting in Lisbon, Global Respiratory Summit in Madrid, and Audited Financial Report:

2018

Activity report, Scientific Meeting in Munich, First Global Respiratory Summit in Paris, and Audited Financial Report:

2017

Here you find the reports about our General Meeting 2017 taking place on 16 June 2017 in Helsinki.

Board elections in Helsinki

  • Tonya Winders, USA, President
  • Kristine Whorlow, Australia, 1st Vice President
  • Roberta Savli, Belgium, 2nd Vice President
  • Otto Spranger, Austria, Treasurer
  • Marianella Salapatas, Greece, Vice-Treasurer
  • Sanaz Eftekhari, USA, Secretary
  • Ilkka Repo, Finland, Vice Secretary

2015

Here you find the reports about our General Meeting 2015 taking place on 29 September 2015 in Amsterdam.

Board elections in Amsterdam

  • Robert Oliphant, Canada, President
  • Per-Åke Wecksell, Sweden, 1st Vice President
  • Yu Zhi Chen, China, 2nd Vice-President
  • Otto Spranger, Austria, Treasurer
  • Marianella Salapatas, Greece, Vice-Treasurer
  • Tonya Winders, USA, Secretary,
  • Ilkka Repo, Finland, Vice Secretary

2013

Here you find the reports about our General Meeting 2013 taking place on 22 June 2013 in Milan.

Board elections in Milan:

  • Robert Oliphant, Canada, President
  • Per-Åke Wecksell, Sweden, 1st Vice President
  • Yu Zhi Chen, China, 2nd Vice President
  • Mike Levin, South Africa, Secretary
  • Ashok Gupta, India, Vice Secretary
  • Otto Spranger, Austria, Treasurer
  • Marianella Salapatas, Greece, Vice Treasurer
  • Anjte-H. Fink Wagner from Germany was confirmed as Executive Director

2011- 2012

Active in its 3rd year now, GAAPP is a global association of organizations advocating the rights and interests of people with allergies and asthma. GAAP’s mission is to support patients with allergies and asthma throughout the world by protecting their rights and insisting on the duties of governments, healthcare professional organizations, and the general public. The GAAPP mission and our objectives were defined at the last general meeting.

Here you find the whole report:

1st GAAPP Symposium at the World Congress of Asthma, Quebec

3rd meeting in Istanbul.

Board Elections in Istanbul:

  • Natalio Salmún, Argentina, President
  • Per-Åke Wecksell, Sweden, 1st Vice President
  • Yu Zhi Chen, China, 2nd Vice-President
  • Otto Spranger, Austria, Treasurer
  • Rob Lanteigne, Canada, Vice-Treasurer
  • Anna Andralojc, Poland, Secretary
  • Irene Krcmova, Czech Republic, Vice Secretary
  • Also Antje-H. Fink Wagner from Germany is assigned to Executive Director.

2010

September 2010

2nd meeting in Barcelona: The GAAPP constitution gets accepted.

2009

June 2009

Rome WHO-GARD meeting: At the WHO-GARD meeting in Rome it is noted that a Global Patient platform is needed as an equal dialogue partner for globally acting HCP organizations.

December 2009

1st meeting: Declaration of Buenos Aires
At the first meeting of GAAPP, the Declaration of Buenos Aires was signed by delegates from 12 countries. Today the Declaration is signed by organizations from 25 countries.