Our Mission
To utilize research, clinical care and community outreach to improve the health of people at risk for or suffering from environmentally-related lung diseases, including asthma.
Overview
The Asthma & Environmental Lung Health Institute (AELHI), a joint effort of the Department of Medicine/School of Medicine and the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, is committed to improving the lives of patients with environmentally associated lung diseases through community engagement, clinical care, epidemiologic and observational studies, as well as clinical trials. It is anchored by a regional asthma research registry which serves as a two-way research and educational link between the scientific community and patients with asthma across western Pennsylvania. The diverse faculty of the AELHI are experts in asthma clinical care, but also participate in community outreach and cutting-edge research on asthma and other environmentally-associated lung diseases.