of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute COORDINATION OF
FEDERAL ASTHMA ACTIVITIES The Children's Health Act of 2000
(P.L. 106-310) requires the Director of the National Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), through the National Asthma
Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) Coordinating Committee
(CC), to identify all federal programs that carry out asthma-
related activities, develop a federal plan for responding to
asthma, and submit recommendations to the Congress on ways to
strengthen and improve coordination of asthma-related activities
of the federal government. The following report has been
prepared by the Federal Liaison Group on Asthma (FLGA), a
subcommittee of the NAEPP-CC, with coordination by the NHLBI.
The report was submitted to the members of the full NAEPP-CC,
and comments received from them have been incorporated. An FY
2001 Inventory of Federal Asthma Activities has been prepared by
the FLGA and is appended to this report. A bl