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27 Mar 2020
IWBI Assembles Task Force on Role Buildings Can Play in Reducing Health Burden of COVID-19 and Other Respiratory Infections
Former RWJF President and CEO Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, UCLA?s Dr. Jonathan Fielding, 17th Surgeon General of the United States Richard Carmona, Harvard School of Public Health?s Joseph Allen to co-chair the effort to advance the role of buildings in protecting and enhancing health
New York City ? March 26th, 2020 ? The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) announced today that it is standing up a Task Force on reducing the enormous health burden from COVID-19 and other respiratory infections. Its goal is to define the critical role buildings, organizations and communities play in prevention and preparedness, resilience and recovery. The Task Force?s work will take a broad approach, considering both new and recurring infectious agents that can affect large populations. Springfield University Hospital in London design by C.F. Møller Architects:

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Co-chairing the Task Force are Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., MBA, former president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and distinguished professor of population health and health equity at the University of Pennsylvania; Jonathan Fielding, M.D., MPH, MA, MBA, distinguished professor at UCLA in the Fielding School of Public Health...