Acknowledgements

The Global Asthma Network (GAN) Steering Group are very grateful to our funders. We would like to thank the following organisations for their funding support of the Global Asthma Report 2018:

The University of Auckland, which has also provided facilities for GAN
Boehringer Ingelheim New Zealand
Global Asthma and Allergy Patient Platform (GAAPP)
Asthma Australia
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) through MRC GCRF-funded project “Lung Health in Africa across the life course” [grant number MR/P022006/1]” We thank the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Lung Health and TB in Africa at LSTM - “IMPALA” for helping to make this work possible. In relation to IMPALA (grant number 16/136/35) specifically: IMPALA was commissioned by the National Institute of Health Research using Official Development Assistance (ODA) funding. The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the United Kingdom National Health Service, the National Institute for Health Research, the Department of Health or any other funder.
Neil Pearce’s work on this report was supported by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC grant agreement no 668954.

We would like to thank all of the authors who contributed to the writing of the chapters.

In particular we would like to acknowledge the work of Eamon Ellwood, Development Manager, University of Auckland, for the design, development and production of the report.

The editing group were Innes Asher, Philippa Ellwood, Catherine Gilchrist and others in the Global Asthma Network Steering Group: Nils Billo, Karen Bissell, Chiang Chen-Yuan, Asma El Sony, Luis García-Marcos, Guy Marks, Neil Pearce and David Strachan.

We also acknowledge the enormously valuable contributions of our colleagues and participants listed on our website: www.globalasthmanetwork.org

The funders of the Global Asthma Network which underpin this report are also listed on our website, and include the following generous donors:

Australia: Asthma Australia; Woolcock Institute of Medical Research
France: Aix Marseille University; The Union
Georgia: Center of Allergy & Immunology, Tbilisi
Latvia: Riga Stradins University
New Zealand: The Asthma Foundation of New Zealand; Auckland Asthma Charitable Trust; Boehringer Ingelheim; University of Auckland
Spain: University of Murcia; University of Valencia
Sultanate of Oman: The Oman Respiratory Society
United Kingdom: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; National Institute for Health Research; St Georges University of London; UK Medical Research Council

Photography

Courtesy of the New Zealand Medical Association: page 5.

Courtesy of the National Asthma Council Australia: pages 8, 26.

Courtesy of The Kerala News: page 9.

Courtesy of Photoshare: © 2004 Syed Ziaul Habib Roobon, page 10-11; © 2008 Josh Nesbit, page 30; © 2017 David Alexander/Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, page 78; © 2013 Global Health Service Partnership, page 81.

Courtesy of the United Nations Population Fund Pacific Island Countries: page 13.

Courtesy of the Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS): pages 14-15, 50, 77, 87.

Courtesy of Reuters: pages 22, 34, 58.

Courtesy of vidafitnespro.com: page 32.

Courtesy of Shutterstock: Zabavna: page 35; Gutesa: page 36; Ilya Andriyanov: page 41; Steve Photography: page 45; sirtravelalot: page 66.

Courtesy of Brian J. Clark for Pact: page 47.

Courtesy of Kristy Siegfried/IRIN: page 76.

Courtesy of The Islamic Monthly/Leila Fatemi.com: page 79.

Design

Eamon Ellwood, Development Manager, University of Auckland, New Zealand

The Global Asthma Report 2018

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