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• Terry Brennan, building scientist,
educator and author of the USEPA
Moisture Control For Commercial
Building Design, Construction, Oper-
ations And Maintenance Guidance.
With a background in physics, bi-
ology and building construction,
he combines theory and practice
in a unique and integrated way.
• Lidia Morawska, professor at the
Queensland University of Technology
(QUT) in Brisbane, Australia, and the
director of the International
Laboratory for Air Quality and Health
(ILAQH) at QUT, which is a Collab-
orating Centre of the World Health
Organization on Research and
Training in the field of Air Quality
and Health. She was recently identi-
fied as one of Time Magazine's "100
Most Influential People of 2021."
ISIA&evid=25477157 to register.
The three-day conference will include
three tracks, each containing multiple
90-minute sessions organized around key
themes, such as the impact of indoor air
quality on health, comfort, productivity
and perception, sources and health effects,
cleaning and disinfection, ventilation,
SARS-CoV-2 transmission and more.
Most sessions will feature up to eight
short "lightning" presentations with a live
Q&A. Others will be in an interactive
workshop format, including two to three
presentations around a specific topic. Each
workshop will also include a panel discus-
sion and a question-and-answer session
with presenters. All content will be search-
able by topic and author, allowing you
to determine your preferred schedule.
In addition to oral and poster ses-
sions and workshops, Healthy Buildings
will feature plenary talks from renowned
experts from research and practice:
• Joseph G. Allen, associate professor
at the Harvard T.H. Chan School
of Public Health and co-author of
Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces
Drive Performance and Productivity.
News & Trends
T
he hope of going to Hawaii
on business in a few weeks
may be over, but an all-star
line-up awaits attendees
who want to bridge the
gap between research and practice.
To protect the health and safety of all
attendees, presenters and staff, organizers
for the Healthy Buildings Conference will
host the upcoming conference, scheduled
to take place January 18-20 in a virtual
format. This live event, sponsored by the
International Society of Indoor Air Quality
and Climate (ISIAQ) and hosted by the
Cleaning Industry Research Institute (CIRI)
will feature more than 200 science-based
oral presentations, poster presentations
and workshops focused on "Bridging the
Gap Between Research and Practice—In
the Age of COVID-19 and Beyond."
"Particularly now, as new COVID-19
variants proliferate, everyone wants a
better understanding of how to keep
our buildings healthy and safe," said
John Downey, executive director at
CIRI. "This change in plans is not totally
unexpected given all the uncertainty of
the past two years. We are well pre-
pared to deliver an abundance of new
research in a real-time, virtual format."
To learn more about this confer-
ence, please visit https://hb2021-ameri-
ca.org or go to https://mms.isiaq.org/
members/evr/reg_event.php?orgcode=
Healthy Buildings Conference Now Live Virtual
