Keerthi is working with the Allegheny County Health Department to address the county’s high burden of pediatric asthma and racial/geographic outcome disparities through the Asthma Control Project (ACP). The ACP partners with the American Lung Association (ALA) and Women for a Healthy Environment (WHE) to improve pediatric asthma outcomes through community education, advocacy, and home trigger reduction. Keerthi will adapt the existing asthma education and assessment tools to deliver community workshops covering topics including inhaler technique, medication adherence, trigger management, and follow-up care. Also integrated into these workshops will be recruitment for WHE’s Healthy Homes Program, a home repairs service that seeks to improve asthma outcomes through trigger reduction. And finally, Keerthi will work to advance the ALA’s advocacy mission which includes a push to ensure albuterol supply at schools by engaging local legislators and elevating the voices of physician stakeholders and families with lived experience within these advocacy conversations.
