Fall Symposium: Addressing Asthma in Schools

Description

The Johns Hopkins Consortium for School-Based Health Solutions is hosting a symposium on "Addressing Asthma in Schools."

This event will be an opportunity for educators, researchers, students and trainees, practitioners, funders, and policymakers to convene and discuss innovative school-based asthma prevention and treatment strategies. Topics include directly-observed controller therapy in schools, addressing environmental triggers and telehealth.

Speakers include:

• Dr. Kate Connor, medical director of the Rales Health Center at KIPP Baltimore and a member of the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• Dr. Helen Hughes, an assistant professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
• Sara LaFave, a PhD candidate at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and co-founder and board president of Lori's Hands
• Dr. Meredith McCormack, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering
• Margret Schnitzer, director of the Community Asthma Program at the Baltimore City Health Department
• Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice and community engagement and professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Department of Health Policy and Management
• Joy Twesigye, acting assistant commissioner for school health at the Baltimore City Health Department

At the symposium, the Consortium is excited to announce a new small grants program to help support and advance innovative school health projects.

Refreshments will be served.