Post Category Infectious Disease

The COVID-19 crisis in India has become devastating. Due to the emergence of new variants, it has also become an international global health issue. Our team is proud to support the Harvard India Research Center by translating some of our COVID-19 related research into relevant infographics to increase awareness around precautions to take to reduce spread and […]

Portable Air Cleaners: Selection and Application Considerations for COVID-19 Risk Reduction The Harvard Healthy Buildings Program published a report on the selection and application considerations of Portable Air Cleaners (PACs) for COVID-19 risk reduction. Engineering controls and Healthy Buildings measures are a key component of the “hierarchy of controls” that should be used in a […]

There is great disparity in the way we think about and address different sources of environmental infection. Governments have for decades publicized legislation and invested in food safety, sanitation, and drinking water for public health purposes. However, airborne pathogens and respiratory infections, whether seasonal influenza or COVID-19, are addressed fairly weakly, if at all, in […]

The research team, led by Dr. Gen Pei, Research Associate with the Healthy Buildings Program, developed a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model to evaluate how portable air cleaners (PACs) help remove airborne pathogens and mitigate disease transmission in occupied classrooms. The recent pandemic underscored the importance of maintaining safe indoor environments for students and teachers […]