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Overview
The Wisconsin Asthma Coalition’s (WAC) mission is to develop and implement a sustainable statewide action plan that expands and improves the quality of asthma education, prevention, management, and services and eliminates the disproportionate burden of asthma in racial/ethnic and low-income populations.

Since the WAC’s inception in 2001 the role of the Alliance has been to coordinate the coalition, which has grown to over 200 members, and facilitate the creation and implementation of the Wisconsin Asthma Plan.

The WAC Executive Committee meets monthly in-person to guide, monitor, and make recommendations to implement the Wisconsin Asthma Plan.

Become Involved
Become a WAC Member – membership is open to any individual or organization interested in asthma prevention, education and management for children and adults.

• Use the Wisconsin Asthma Plan 2009-2014 - An updated blueprint for addressing asthma in Wisconsin created by the Wisconsin Asthma Coalition.
  View full plan.
  View executive summary.
• Attend Biannual WAC Meetings - national and local expert speakers, interactive discussion, programs, tools and networking opportunities.
  
  WAC Spring Meeting
  May 6-7, 2010
  Asthma innovations

• Dinner program: Peak flows and PFT’s, Paul
  Kubic, MD
• Keynote: Poor control on directly observed therapy, Paul Kubic, MD
• Interactive Asthma Action Plan (iAAP), Susan Ross, RN, AE-C
• Minnesota community measurements for optimal asthma control, Marlis O’Brien, RRT, AE-C
• Participant list
  
  
  
• Join a Workgroup - work as a team to implement the Wisconsin Asthma Plan.
• Join a WAC Local Asthma Coalition - WAC Local Asthma Coalition are located throughout Wisconsin working to implement asthma activities at the local level. Learn more.

- WAC Executive Committee
- WAC Members
- WAC Membership Form
- Implementation Projects
- WAC Educational Activity Reporting Form

- Implementation Reporting form, 2009-2014

Funding
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) Asthma Program has received funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since 2001 to support coalition activities and intensive statewide surveillance. The Alliance is contracted by DHS to coordinate the WAC and the creation, distribution and implementation of the Wisconsin Asthma Plan. The current funding, a three-year enhanced planning grant from CDC Cooperative Agreement "Enhancing State Capacity to Address Asthma," continues coalition efforts and implementation of the plan.