Upcoming Events & Activities
Check out our upcoming events, campaigns, webinars & awareness days. Click on each event to learn more and find out how your organization can join!
Event Legend
- GAAPP Events
- Member Organization Events
- World Awareness Day
Co-Hosting & Collaborating
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Current Communication Grants
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.
World Urticaria Day 2023
For 2023 #WorldEczemaDay, GAAPP has joined Globalskin and EFA “#IfYouOnlyKnew” campaign to amplify the voice of the important testimonials that we recorded for the “AD Caregivers Academy Project”
World Atopic Eczema Day 2023
For 2023 #WorldEczemaDay, GAAPP has joined Globalskin and EFA “#IfYouOnlyKnew” campaign to amplify the voice of the important testimonials that we recorded for the “AD Caregivers Academy Project”
Past Communication Grants
World Asthma Day 2023
For 2023 #WorldAsthmaDay, we continue and expand upon our previous campaign, Asthma Care Access: The Voice of the Uncared.
GAAPP World COPD Day 2022
Speak up for COPD We want you to lend your…
Asthma Care Access
The Voice of the Uncared World Lung Day is 25 September…
Atopic Dermatitis Caregivers Academy
World Eczema Day 2022 World Eczema Day is 14 September…
World Asthma Day 2022
In honor of #WorldAsthmaDay, GAAPP has adapted GINA’s ‘Closing Gaps…
World Atopic Eczema Day 2021
The hidden disease People living with Atopic Ezcema have many…
World COPD Day 2020
Foreword by Tonya A. Winders, GAAPP “384 million people worldwide…
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:
- 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.
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
- European Alpha-1 Day, 25 April
- 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