From the Executive Director...

The mission of MCAN is anchored by these facts: 1) asthma is manageable when children and their families have access to and utilize quality healthcare services; and 2) there are evidence-based interventions that have proven effective in  managing asthma symptoms as well as facilitating access to and utilization of the health care system. 
 
We have past the two-year anniversary of the launch of the MCAN Program Sites.  Now hundreds of children with asthma along with hundreds more family members and providers are participating in a variety of evidence-based interventions being implemented by our grantees and their partners. It's a remarkable achievement especially when you consider that this is new territory.  There is no roadmap for systematic adoption of interventions proven effective and no guidelines for evaluating the effectiveness of integrating these interventions into existing health care systems and communities.  MCAN Program Sites are helping to construct the roadmap by pioneering comprehensive community-based strategies to do just that for childhood asthma.
 
It is difficult and complex work. We are in the middle of our four-year translational research initiative and I salute and thank our talented MCAN "pioneers" for their dedication, outstanding work and progress toward the task at hand! 
 

- Floyd Malveaux