RESPIRE Annual Scientific Meeting 2025
The annual scientific meeting for the RESPIRE research collaboration for 2025 was hosted by our Malaysian group in Sabah, bringing together colleagues including IPCRG colleagues from Malaysia, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Indonesia and Bhutan.
Site visits to primary care centres highlighted some really excellent family medicine-led community based services for lung health. These included smoking cessation, asthma, COPD and TB health promotion, treatment and rehabilitation services demonstrating how the Lung Health Resolution can be integrated into the community.
IPCRG has co-led stakeholder engagement in research since 2017 and we are delighted with this summary from the funder NIHR in July this year: "RESPIRE's core strength lies in its proactive stakeholder engagement”. To learn more, see our paper on the Champions model and the guide.
There are many research projects with the potential to be spread and scaled up, some of which you know about through abstracts to IPCRG meetings or papers in our journal and new ones that we hope will be submitted to Tunis 2026.