Combatting Air Pollution: A Keynote address by Professor Joseph G. Allen

In this keynote address, Professor Joseph G. Allen highlights strategies to combat air pollution in indoor environments. The debilitating health effects of poor air quality and substandard housing conditions is often overlooked, but indoor air pollution leads to millions of premature deaths each year. In his address to the IIEA, Professor Allen outlines key findings from his landmark book, Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity, which was recognised as ‘Best Book of the Year’ in Fortune magazine and the New York Times, for two consecutive years. About the Speaker: Joseph G. Allen is Director of the Healthy Buildings program and an Associate Professor at Harvard’s T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Before joining the faculty at Harvard, he spent several years in the private sector leading teams of scientists and engineers to investigate and resolve hundreds of indoor environmental quality issues, including “sick buildings,” cancer clusters, and biological/chemical hazards. His academic research focuses on the critical role that the indoor built environment plays in our overall health. One of the world’s leading experts on healthy buildings, Professor Allen is a regular keynote speaker and advises leading global companies. He is the co-author of Healthy Buildings. This event is part of the Environmental Resilience series, which is supported by the EPA.