Collaborating directly with communities is imperative to ensure inclusivity and address disparities. Barriers such as mistrust, language and cultural differences, and lack of diversity among researchers must be overcome to encourage diverse participation in research studies.

This article concludes by emphasizing the significance of a comprehensive approach to FA research that prioritizes equity and inclusivity. The call to action highlights the need for global initiatives to reshape the landscape of FA care and address disparities in health care access and outcomes.

It provides information on current law campaigns. It also offers simple ways to contact Congress. Visit the website to:.

Advocacy Action Alerts notify advocates about pending federal or state asthma and allergy legislation. When you sign up as an KFA advocate, you will receive email alerts on national or state issues. When you receive an Advocacy Action Alert, you can click a link to learn more about the issue.

You will also be able to send a pre-written letter to your elected officials. You can add your own story to the letter or send it as is. Depending on the Advocacy Action Alert, the website may give you the chance to send your letter to your senators, representatives, or other officials.

Click on the link, fill out the form, review the letter, and click submit. We can help raise awareness, increase education, improve diagnosis and fund research. This can improve the lives of everyone affected by asthma and allergies. Do you have advocacy-related questions or comments? Contact us gro.

afaa ycacovda for help. KFA is dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with asthma and allergic diseases. You can connect with others who understand what it is like to live with food allergies, asthma, and allergic diseases.

You're not alone. Ask Congress to Support the Bill to Cap the Cost of Epinephrine. Ng, A. NCHS Data Brief, no Diagnosed allergic conditions in adults: United States, National Center for Health Statistics. Zablotsky, B. NCHS Data Brief, no Diagnosed allergic conditions in children aged years: United States, Over the past 15 years, there have been moderate advances in U.

public policy, health care and research, but racial gaps in asthma outcomes have not changed. Minority groups continue to bear disproportionate hardship in managing asthma.

The Role of Public Health in Asthma Control. AAFA Honors Black History Month with a Focus on Health Equity. Ask Congress to Support the Bill to Cap the Cost of Epinephrine.

Food Allergy Advocacy Food allergy — a potentially life-threatening condition with no known cure — affects millions of people in the U.

We listen to our community members and other key stakeholders to help identify key advocacy priorities, including: Improved food allergen labeling Access to epinephrine in schools and other places Airline travel safety and accommodations Affordable epinephrine and other allergy treatments Food allergy research to expand treatment options Proper management of food allergies in schools and early child care centers.

AAFA's Position Statements on Food Allergy Policies AAFA Comments on New Model for School Health Services in DC AAFA provided comments expressing concern over the new model for school health services that will be implemented in D. Food Allergy Research AAFA supports policies that encourage more food allergy related research, including improved nationwide, representative prevalence data.

AAFA Co-Sponsored Report with the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine With support from AAFA, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a monumental report that makes recommendations to increase our understanding of and approaches to food allergies.

Federal Publications and Resources What You Need to Know About Food Allergies This food allergy fact sheet from the Food and Drug Administration provides what you need to know about food allergies, FDA labeling and what to do if an allergic reaction occurs.

In addition, more information about the health, social, and economic impacts of food allergy will allow a better understanding of the scope of challenges that our community brings to our attention every day.

AAFA will work with partners in the food allergy community and with the relevant federal agencies to support implementation of these important goals, including through implementation of the FASTER Act, which requires HHS to report to Congress on ongoing efforts regarding food allergy surveillance and research.

In addition, AAFA will draw on new allergy data to help shape ongoing food allergy policy at the federal and state levels. Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy in the United States: Summary for Patients, Families and Caregivers The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases NIAID worked with many professional organizations, federal agencies and patient advocacy groups to develop guidelines on food allergy for health care professionals.

This booklet summarizes these guidelines and encourages patient-doctor conversations about food allergy. This booklet is meant to provide patients, families and caregivers with the knowledge they need to manage their food allergies.

Ng, A. NCHS Data Brief, no Diagnosed allergic conditions in adults: United States, National Center for Health Statistics. Zablotsky, B.

NCHS Data Brief, no Diagnosed allergic conditions in children aged years: United States, Over the past 15 years, there have been moderate advances in U. public policy, health care and research, but racial gaps in asthma outcomes have not changed.

Minority groups continue to bear disproportionate hardship in managing asthma. The Role of Public Health in Asthma Control. AAFA Honors Black History Month with a Focus on Health Equity.

Ask Congress to Support the Bill to Cap the Cost of Epinephrine. Food Allergy Advocacy Food allergy — a potentially life-threatening condition with no known cure — affects millions of people in the U.

We listen to our community members and other key stakeholders to help identify key advocacy priorities, including: Improved food allergen labeling Access to epinephrine in schools and other places Airline travel safety and accommodations Affordable epinephrine and other allergy treatments Food allergy research to expand treatment options Proper management of food allergies in schools and early child care centers.

AAFA's Position Statements on Food Allergy Policies AAFA Comments on New Model for School Health Services in DC AAFA provided comments expressing concern over the new model for school health services that will be implemented in D. Food Allergy Research AAFA supports policies that encourage more food allergy related research, including improved nationwide, representative prevalence data.

AAFA Co-Sponsored Report with the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine With support from AAFA, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a monumental report that makes recommendations to increase our understanding of and approaches to food allergies.

Federal Publications and Resources What You Need to Know About Food Allergies This food allergy fact sheet from the Food and Drug Administration provides what you need to know about food allergies, FDA labeling and what to do if an allergic reaction occurs.

Print page. Food Allergy Advocacy Epinephrine in Schools Food Allergies in Child Care Settings Food Allergen Labeling Patient-Focused Drug Development: Food Allergy.

At the same time, she shows how this activism also reproduces the culturally dominant politics of personhood and responsibility, based on an idealized version of the American family, centered around white, middle-class, and heteronormative motherhood.

Food Allergy Advocacy raises important questions about who controls illness activism. Examining the politics of protecting children with food allergies in the United States, Food Allergy Advocacy opens up a conversation between food allergy, whiteness, and disability to untangle contemporary health politics.

It importantly brings feminist STS and disability studies to this understudied but widely cared about concern. The success of food allergy activism in highlighting the dangers of foodborne allergens shows how illness communities can effectively advocate for the needs of their members.

In Food Allergy Advocacy , Danya Glabau follows parents and activists as they fight for allergen-free environments, accurate labeling, the fair application of disability law, and access to life-saving medications for food-allergic children in the United States.

Danya Glabau is industry assistant professor and director of science and technology studies at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Food Allergy Advocacy is a fascinating investigation of the complexities underlying our understanding of allergies in the United States.

In doing so, Danya Glabau not only illustrates the highly gendered, racialized, and heteronormative assumptions that configure allergy science and treatment, she also argues that allergy advocacy itself ends up reinforcing this problematic reproductive politics rather than challenging it.

An essential read for anyone interested in the intersection of health care, patient advocacy, and technoscience.

Kean Birch, coeditor of Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism. This is an exploration into the realities of food allergy care like no other.

In the News. Danya Glabau discusses FOOD ALLERGY ADVOCACY on New Books in Education. In Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care, Danya Glabau follows parents and activists as they fight for allergen-free environments, accurate labeling, the fair application of disability law, and access to life-saving medications for food-allergic children in the United States.

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Advanced Search…. You are here: Home Book Division Books Food Allergy Advocacy. Food Allergy Advocacy Parenting and the Politics of Care Author: Danya Glabau. By holding up the threat of food allergens to the white nuclear family to galvanize political and scientific action, Glabau shows, the movement excludes many, including Black women and disabled adults, whose families and health have too often been marginalized from public health and social safety net programs.

Further, its strategies are founded on the assumption that market-based solutions will address issues of social exclusion and equal access to healthcare. Sharing the personal experiences of a wide spectrum of people, including parents, support group leaders, physicians, entrepreneurs, and scientists, Food Allergy Advocacy raises important questions about who controls illness activism.

Using critical, intersectional feminism to interrogate how race, class, and gender shape activist priorities and platforms, it shows the way to new, justice-focused models of advocacy.