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ST Medical Monday: "Healthy Buildings" (Encore)

Aired on Monday, February 27th.
Aired on Monday, February 27th.

Now in a revised/updated edition, this book is, per The New York Times, "a call to action for every developer, building owner, shareholder, chief executive, manager, teacher, worker, and parent to start demanding healthy buildings with cleaner indoor air."

(Note: This interview first aired back in November.) Our guest is Joseph G. Allen, the Director of Harvard's Healthy Buildings Program and an Associate Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Allen is a noted forensic investigator of so-called "sick buildings" -- and his landmark book, "Healthy Buildings" (which he cowrote with John D. Macomber), has recently been reissued in a new, post-COVID edition. Per Fortune Magazine: "This exposé of the widespread under-ventilation and pollution inside modern buildings arrived just as shared indoor space became truly deadly. Though there's now light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, [this book's] insights and guidelines for improving indoor air quality should play a huge role in post-pandemic reforms."

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