Research

Advocacy documents

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Click here to read one of the Asthma Foundation's three major advocacy documents: Trying to Catch Our Breath - The Burden of Preventable Breathing Diseases in Children and Young People, The Burden of Asthma in New Zealand or The Burden of COPD in New Zealand.

Health professionals


Literature review: respiratory health for Maori

This review provides a review of the evidence relating to four important respiratory health conditions, with a specific focus on evidence relating to Maori.  It is hoped that this report will be helpful in identifying gaps in the current evidence base, to guide future research priorities in respiratory health for Maori. See here. (Allow a few seconds for download).

2010/11 research round

The Asthma Foundation has called for proposals for its  2010/2011 research round. See more here.

The Asthma Foundation funds research

One of our most important functions is to fund research to help the future of New Zealand lungs. Here are some of the projects that we have helped fund.

2008

  • George Gray – Literature Review, Respiratory Health for Asthma (read review at top of this page)
  • Jeroen Douwes – the role of the innate immune system in childhood asthma development
  • Ian Longley – driving and young children’s air pollution exposure
  • Ruth Gardener – nurse led monitoring of chronic persistent asthma using the asthma control test (ACT)
  • Robin Taylor – Towards better assessment and treatment of exercise-induced wheeze

2007

  • Paul Kelly – Physiological responses to acute hypobaria in patients with COPD
  • Richard Beasley – The effect of oxygen therapy on clinical outcomes in acute severe asthma
  • K Silvers – Breast feeding and early childhood nutrition in the development of asthma and allergy.
  • Michael Keall – Asthma Symptoms and Thermal Qualities of Housing:  Measuring Associations

2006

  • Douglas Cowan – The management on non-eosinophilic asthma: a randomised control trial
  • Alister Neill – AutoCPAP: its effectiveness in severe obstructive sleep apnoea

2005

  • Innes Asher - ISAAC (the International Study of Asthma and Allergy in Children)
  • Thorsten Stanley - The use of exhaled nitric oxide in the practical management of childhood asthma
  • Elizabeth Edwards - A collaborative and international study on bronchiectasis in indigenous children
  • John Kolbe - Pulmonary rehabilitation in bronchiectasis
  • Peter Black - Is COPD due to defective tissue repair?
  • Julian Crane - An acceptability study of SNUS and a novel nicotine pouch substitute in NZ heavy smokers

2004

  • Isobel Martin - Survey of spirometry in general practice
  • Innes Asher - ISAAC study phase III” (the International Study of Asthma and Allergy in Children)
  • Kathleen Liberty - Academic achievement and behaviour in new entrant children with asthma
  • Robin Taylor - Use of exhaled nitric oxide in predicting response to oral steroids in COPD
    (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)
  • Claire Dowson - Evaluating COPD self-management knowledge after an education and self-management intervention

  • Richard Beasley - Association of asthma therapy and Churg-Strauss syndrome

2000/2001

  • Isobel Martin - The role of the identification of specific allergic sensitisation in the management of asthma
  • Tony Kettle - Oxidation of beta-agonists by peroxidases
  • Julian Crane - Bowel flora in NZ infants before and after antibiotic treatment – a pilot study
  • Rod Lambert - Deducing airway properties from a lung function test

More information

For more information on the Asthma Foundation's research projects, please email Jane Patterson at jane@asthmafoundation.org.nz