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The COVID-19 pandemic brought attention to the importance of indoor air quality and ushered in new guidance on higher ventilation rates to help with infection risk reduction. As the pandemic eased, questions emerged on the benefits of these higher outdoor air ventilation rates beyond disease transmission. To investigate this, we leveraged a unique opportunity to […]

In this TED Talk, Dr. Joseph Allen, Associate Professor and the Director of the Healthy Buildings Program at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, opens by asking the audience to take a long, slow, deep breath, and think about their “Indoor Age”. The average person spends 90% of their life inside. To find our […]

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 […]

Last week, the Biden-Harris administration hosted the White House Summit on Sustainable and Healthy K-12 School Buildings and Grounds. Clean energy, safe drinking water, and indoor air quality are key pillars of the White House’s action plan to improve schools’ health across the country. Healthy Buildings director Joseph Allen shares his key takeaways from the summit […]