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5 years after Covid: Healthy building trends to know (w/ Dr. Joe Allen)

Join us for a special fifth anniversary episode of Urban Green Live!

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  • February 19, 2025
  • 10:00 – 11:00 am
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Event Cost

  • Non-member: $20
  • Core Member (incl. Student & Emerging Professional): $10
  • Trust and Leadership Level Member (incl. Steward & Supporter): Free Admission
  • Sponsor Member: Free Admission
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For the fifth anniversary of Urban Green Live, we return to our very first guest: Dr. Joe Allen, Director of Harvard’s Healthy Buildings Program and Associate Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan of Public Health. Five years after the coronavirus pandemic emerged, Dr. Allen will review what we’ve learned since and discuss the latest trends for designing healthy buildings. Join us on February 19 to learn about recent improvements in Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) sensor technologies, new research about IAQ’s cognitive impacts on creativity, healthier building materials, and more!

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Speakers

Dr. Joe Allen
Associate Professor and Director of the Healthy Buildings Program, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Dr. Joseph G. Allen, DSc, MPH, CIH is associate professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and director of Harvard’s Healthy Buildings Program. He is the coauthor of Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick—or Keep You Well. During the COVID-19 pandemic he served as Commissioner of The Lancet COVID-19 Commission and Chair of its Safe Work, Safe Schools, and Safe Travel Task Force. Dr. Allen is an editor for two journals – Indoor Environments and Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology – and has authored over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers.

John Mandyck
CEO, Urban Green Council

John Mandyck joined Urban Green Council in 2018 as its first-ever CEO. He capped a 25-year career as Chief Sustainability Officer for United Technologies Corporation, a Fortune 45 global leader in the building, aerospace and food refrigeration industries. He also serves as a Visiting Scientist at the Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Business. John is the founding chair of the Corporate Advisory Board for the World Green Building Council, a former board chair of Urban Green, and co-author of the book Food Foolish.

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