Associate Professor
Director, Harvard Healthy Buildings Program (ForHealth.org)
Director, Public Health for Business Leaders
Commissioner, The Lancet COVID-19 Commission
Chair, The Lancet COVID-19 Commission Task Force on Safe Work, Safe Schools, and Safe Travel
Harvard University Coronavirus Advisory Group
Harvard Presidential Committee on Sustainability (Co-Chair, 2050 Sub-Committee)
Deputy Director, Harvard Education and Research Center for Occupational Safety & Health
BS, Biology
Boston College
MPH, Environmental Health
Boston University School of Public Health
DSc, Exposure Assessment, Environmental Epidemiology, Biostatistics
Boston University School of Public Health
CIH, Certified Industrial Hygienist
ABIH
Commissioner, The Lancet COVID-19 Commission
The Lancet
Chair, The Lancet COVID-19 Commission Task Force on Safe Work, Safe Schools, and Safe Travel
The Lancet
Member, Presidential Committee on Sustainability
Harvard University
Scientific Advisor
Massachusetts Governor
Advisor, Covid-19 Response
The White House
Young AS, Herkert N, Stapleton HM, Coull BA, Hauser R, Zoeller T, Behnisch PA, Felzel E, Brouwer A, Allen JG.
Chemosphere. 2023 Feb. 315:137705. PMID: 36592838
Young AS, Pickard HM, Sunderland EM, Allen JG.
Environ Sci Technol. 2022 12 06. 56(23):17090-17099. PMID: 36331119
Joseph G. Allen, John D. Macomber.
Healthy Buildings: How indoor spaces can make you sick - or keep you well. 2022.
Buonocore JJ, Salimifard P, Magavi Z, Allen JG.
Sci Rep. 2022 07 13. 12(1):11931. PMID: 35831376
Wallach ES, Lam NL, Nuwagira E, Muyanja D, Tayebwa M, Valeri L, Tsai AC, Vallarino J, Allen JG, Lai PS.
Indoor Air. 2022 02. 32(2):e12986. PMID: 35225388
Sundararajan R, D'Couto H, Mugerwa J, Tayebwa M, Lam N, Wallach E, Wiens M, Ponticiello M, Stanistreet D, Tsai AC, Vallarino J, Allen JG, Muyanja D, Shrime MG, Nuwagira E, Lai PS.
Environ Res Lett. 2022 Jan. 17(1). PMID: 35295194
Jones ER, Cedeño Laurent JG, Young AS, Coull BA, Spengler JD, Allen JG.
Indoor Air. 2022 01. 32(1):e12961. PMID: 34859930
Meira Levinson, Alan C. Geller, Joseph G. Allen, The Lancet COVID-19 Commission Task Force on Safe Work, Safe School, and Safe Travel.
The Lancet Regional Health - Americas. 2021.
Laurent JGC, MacNaughton P, Jones E, Young AS, Bliss M, Flanigan S, Vallarino J, Chen LJ, Cao X, Allen JG.
Environ Res Lett. 2021 Sep. 16(9). PMID: 35330988
Levinson M, Geller AC, Allen JG.
Lancet Reg Health Am. 2021 Oct. 2:100032. PMID: 36588583
New indoor ventilation targets from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as enhanced ventilation standards from an industry group, could help significantly reduce the spread of infectious diseases, according to Harvard Chan School’s Joseph Allen.
Office workers in the U.S., the U.K., China, and India were exposed to complex mixtures of chemicals that can disrupt hormonal functions, according to a study that analyzed chemical traces picked up by silicone wristbands worn by the…
It’s possible to design buildings that have better ventilation and that also use less energy, according to Harvard Chan School’s Joseph Allen.
Buildings renovated with healthier furnishings had significantly lower levels of the entire group of per- and polyfluoralkyl substances (PFAS)—toxic chemicals linked with many negative health effects—than buildings with conventional furnishings, according to a new study led by Harvard…
Shifting buildings away from using dirty fossil fuels and toward using electricity for heating and cooling will be a crucial part of combatting climate change. But decarbonizing buildings would require a whopping increase in demand for renewable energy…