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A look at how healthy buildings can improve indoor life
A recent book about healthy buildings co-authored by Harvard Chan School’s Joseph Allen was featured in a New Yorker article by Harvard University historian Jill Lepore.
Experts offer advice on air purifiers for classrooms
A new downloadable calculator can help determine how powerful an air purifier must be to help keep classrooms safe from the coronavirus.
Heat waves bring health risks for vulnerable populations
With summer heat comes elevated health risks for vulnerable populations.
Student articles focus on housing insecurity, urban farming, and environmental justice
Two doctoral students in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health recently wrote articles focused on environmental justice that were featured in Environmental Health News’ Agents of Change series. In an April…
Promoting safe biking in cities during COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
Anne Lusk, research scientist in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, recently has been speaking and writing about ways that cities can encourage more people to bicycle by creating safe and appealing…
Panel: U.S. air pollution standards not protecting public health
An independent panel of experts—including Douglas Dockery, John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Research Professor of Environmental Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health—has concluded that current federal limits on air pollution are not adequate…
How to behave in an elevator during COVID-19 pandemic
Joseph Allen has some advice about good elevator etiquette for when you return to the office amid the coronavirus pandemic. Wear a mask, he advises. Load the elevator in a checkerboard pattern. Face forward. Announce your desired floor.…
Healthy Buildings on the Horizon
From fighting coronavirus to boosting cognitive performance, Joe Allen thinks healthy buildings will be the next public health revolution.
Unleashing New Tools to Build a Healthier Environment
The Login5 Foundation, which had previously supported the initial development and debut of the CoBE calculator, is continuing its support of the project with a new gift of $1.5 million.
Op-ed: We should focus on airborne transmission of COVID-19
Mitigating airborne transmission of the coronavirus “should be at the front of our disease-control strategies for COVID-19,” according to Joseph Allen, assistant professor of exposure assessment science at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. That’s because evidence…