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Check out our upcoming events, campaigns, webinars & awareness days. Click on each event to learn more and find out how your organization can join!

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World Lung Day 2023

To provide an actual global perspective, during 2023’s edition of our Global Respiratory Summit, GAAPP asked 11 global patient advocates and leaders of patient organizations from 8 different countries and three continents who joined us in Milan what was the biggest challenge for Lung Health in their countries.
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Other Events

Annual Events

For member organizations, GAAPP annually executes the following:

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: http://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 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 Cystic Fibrosis Day, 8 September
  • World Atopic Dermatitis Day, 14 September
  • World NTM Day, 4 August
  • World Lung Day, 25 September
  • 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