GAAPP Events

Other Events

Annual Events

For member organizations, GAAPP annually executes the following:

• Scientific Meeting: GAAPP hosts this event annually with several scientific presentations on allergies, CSU, AD, Asthma, COPD, COVID, and guidelines updates conducted by leading Health Care Professionals and Researchers. More information:
  • 2020 Scientific Meeting (Summary)
  • 2021 Scientific Meeting (Summary + Recording)
  • 2022 Scientific Meeting (Summary + Recording)
  • 2023 Scientific Meeting (Summary + Recording)
    
• Global Respiratory Summit: A platform for patient organizations to raise their voice for urgent issues, share best practices, and come together with respiratory advocacy organizations. This meeting defines the path GAAPP will take with advocacy, education, and policymaking for the following year.
  • 2019 Global Respiratory Summit (Summary)
  • 2020 Global Respiratory Summit (Summary)
  • 2021 Global Respiratory Summit (Summary + Recording)
  • 2022 Global Respiratory Summit (Summary + Recording)
  • 2023 Global Respiratory Summit (Summary + Recording)

GAAPP Academy

Every year we complement our Global Respiratory Summit with 6 Capacity-Building webinars. Each year’s topics are selected based on our member patient organizations’ feedback and unmet needs. You can watch our GAAPP Academy videos at this link: https://gaapp.org/events/webinars/

World Awareness Days

GAAPP is developing, conducting, and disseminating multi-channel awareness campaigns of World Awareness Days across all communication channels that we will announce and promote every year a few weeks before the stipulated date to share with our member organizations. Unity makes us strong! Our yearly Awareness Day campaigns:

• World Rare Disease Day, 28 February (or 29 every 4th year)
• World Health Day, 7 April
• World CRSwNP Day, 24 April
• European Alpha-1 Day, 25 April
• World Allergy Awareness Week 22-28 April (changes yearly)
• World Pulmonary Hypertension Day, 5 May
• World Asthma Day: Every first Tuesday of May
• World Eosinophilic Diseases Day, 18 May
• World Bronchiectasis Day, 1 July
• World NTM Day, 4 August
• World Cystic Fibrosis Day, 8 September
• World Atopic Dermatitis Day, 14 September
• World Lung Day, 25 September
• World Latex Allergy Awareness Week, First full week of October (From Sunday to Saturday)
• World Urticaria Day, 1 October
• World O2 Day, 2 October
• World COPD Day: Every second or third Wednesday of November
• World Pulmonary Hypertension Awareness Month, November
• World Alpha-1 Awareness Month, November