Current Awareness Campaigns
World Asthma May 2026
We are all woven together! In alignment with the Global…
Past Communication Grants
World COPD Day 2025
COPD affects 391 million people worldwide—that’s equivalent to the population…World Chronic Cough Day 2025
Chronic Cough is a disease, not just a symptom The…World Urticaria Day 2025
World Urticaria Day, an annual event dedicated to raising awareness…
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: https://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 Aspergillosis Day, 2 February
- World Rare Disease Day, 28 February (or 29 every 4th year)
- 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 Immunization Week 2026 24–30 April
- World Pulmonary Hypertension Day, 5 May
- World Asthma Day: Every first Tuesday of May
- World Eosinophilic Diseases Day, 18 May
- World Food Allergy Awareness Week, the 3rd week of May every year
- World EoE Day, 22 May
- World Bronchiectasis Day, 1 July
- World NTM Day, 4 August
- World Cystic Fibrosis Day, 8 September
- World Atopic Dermatitis Day, 14 September
- World Lung Day, 25 September
- World AERD Awareness Day, 26 September
- World Latex Allergy Awareness Week, the First full week of October (From Sunday to Saturday)
- 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