Asthma International is a UK registered charity, number 1137375. It was set up by journalist Gary Dexter in 2010 to care for people in low-income countries who have no access to asthma medication.

Associate clinicians who support the work of Asthma International include:

Professor Martyn Partridge, Professor of Respiratory Medicine and Patient Centred Care, Imperial College London;

Dr Raj Singh of the Chest Foundation of India, an assembly member of the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA);

Professor Le Thi Tuyet Lan, Ph.D., Chairwoman of the University Medical Centre of Ho Chi Minh City Respiratory Care Centre, and member of the assembly of GINA;

Professor Arshad Javaid, Department of Pulmonology, the Lady Reading Hospital, and President of the Pakistan Chest Society;

Professor Nikolaos Papadopoulos, Professor of Allergy & Paediatric Allergy, University of Manchester, and ex-President of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology;

Professor Mike Thomas, former Chief Medical Officer, Asthma UK.