Listen to our first episode of Urban Green Live, hosted by Urban Green Council CEO John Mandyck. This livestreamed interview series features industry experts from NYC and around the globe to talk about solutions for a zero-carbon future.
On April 17, 2020, we were delighted to welcome Dr. Joseph Allen as our first guest. He’s a research professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, director of Harvard’s Healthy Buildings program and co-author of “Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity.” Dr. Allen’s views on COVID-19 have been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, CNBC and more. In this episode, Dr. Allen shares his expertise at the intersection of buildings and health and answers audience questions.
Published April 17, 2020
Speaker
John Mandyck
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Joe Allen
Assistant Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Dr. Joseph G. Allen is an assistant professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and co-author of Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity, with John Macomber at Harvard Business School. He began his career conducting forensic health investigations of sick buildings. At Harvard, Dr. Allen directs the Healthy Buildings program where he created ‘The 9 Foundations of a Healthy Building’. He works with Fortune 500 companies on implementing Healthy Building strategies in their global portfolios and presents internationally on the topic of Healthy Buildings. His work has been featured widely in the popular press, including the Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, Financial Times, USA Today, NPR, The Washington Post, Fortune, New York Times, and Harvard Business Review, Dr. Allen is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology and the journal Indoor Air.