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Lung Health Foundation Encouraged by Ontario’s $1.8 Billion Primary Care Investment and Hopes Vital Respiratory Services Will Be Included

August 4, 2025

As Ontario commits $1.8 billion to expand access to team-based primary care, the Lung Health Foundation (LHF) is calling on the government to take a vital next step: ensure that Respiratory Therapists and Certified Respiratory Educators (CREs) are included in these frontline care teams.

OPINION: Let’s help Ontario’s primary care teams catch their breath

July 28, 2025

Ontario’s $1.8 billion investment in primary care is a crucial step but we must integrate specialized lung health expertise to address the silent epidemic of respiratory illness, says an expert from the Lung Health Foundation.

OPINION: As other countries cut public health funding, Canada can lead in lung health

May 14, 2025

Canada should support a landmark WHO resolution addressing the alarming rise in both communicable and non-communicable respiratory diseases.

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Chasing Gold or Just Living Your Everyday Best: Lung Health Foundation and Olympian Maggie Mac Neil Team to Inspire Canadians to Make Daily Lung Care a Top Priority

July 17, 2024

Ready. Set. Breathe, Canada. Something exciting is in the air as the Lung Health Foundation (LHF) teams with Olympic champion and lung health advocate Maggie Mac Neil for a “breathtaking” multi-platform national awareness campaign just in time for the Paris Summer Games. Canada’s trusted go-to public resource for lung health has partnered with the 100m butterfly gold medalist – one of 3.8 million Canadians who live with asthma – to make waves showcasing how our lungs are the real champions of athletic excellence, and of life’s everyday moments.

Lung Health Foundation Appoints Donna Cansfield As New Chair of Board of Directors

July 3, 2024

The Lung Health Foundation (LHF) (lunghealth.ca), Canada’s leading non-profit lung health organization, today announced new appointments to its Board of Directors, reinforcing its commitment to improving lung health for all Canadians.

Lung Health Foundation Teams with Ontario’s Public Health Units to Introduce ‘Brief Conversations Toolkit’ on World No Tobacco Day

May 31, 2024

In alignment with World No Tobacco Day, the Lung Health Foundation has partnered with Ontario’s Public Health Units to introduce the Brief Conversations Toolkit, a robust bilingual online resource that aims to shrink the unprecedented youth vaping crisis in Canada by increasing brief contact intervention (BCI) knowledge and application among those who work with or care for the nation’s youth.