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Last Chance to Register!
The Federal Interagency Committee on Indoor Air Quality will hold its next public webinar on Thursday, November 9, from 1 - 4:30 p.m. EDT.
At the meeting, CIAQ member agencies will provide updates on their indoor environmental quality-related activities. Following member updates, CAPT Stephen B. Martin, Jr. (Steve) and Dr. Kenneth Mead from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will discuss the CDC's updated ventilation guidance for COVID-19.
As part of the May 2023 guidance update, CDC released the first-ever federal government recommendation for a ventilation rate aimed at protecting the health of building occupants outside of healthcare spaces. This presentation will focus on the recent updates to CDC ventilation guidance and provide an example of how to meet the new five air changes per hour recommendation. While developed specifically for COVID-19, the new guidance is applicable to the control of other infectious aerosols.
Congress established the CIAQ in 1983 to coordinate federal indoor air quality research while facilitating information exchange and collaboration among federal agencies, state and local governments, the research community, the private sector, and the general public.
Learn more about the CIAQ and its activities.
If you have questions, a presentation topic, or other suggestions you would like considered for future meetings, please send them to burton.laureen@epa.gov.
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Featured Speakers
Stephen B. Martin, Jr., PhD., PE, CAPT, U.S. Public Health Service, Senior Research Engineer
CAPT Stephen B. Martin, Jr. (Steve) is a Senior Research Engineer Officer in the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service assigned to the Field Studies Branch of the Respiratory Health Division at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in Morgantown, West Virginia. He led the Filtration and Disinfection Team of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Epidemic Task Force that was formed early in the pandemic to provide critical ventilation guidance. More recently, he led the Air Cleaning Working Group in the development of ASHRAE Standard 241: Control of Infectious Aerosols.
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Kenneth Mead, PhD., Branch Chief, Engineering and Physical Hazards Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Dr. Kenneth Mead is a mechanical engineer and industrial hygienist. He is the Branch Chief within the CDC’s NIOSH. In this role, he oversees a large team of engineers, scientists, and support personnel who design and evaluate engineering control solutions to reduce occupational exposures in traditional and emergency response environments. Dr. Mead has over 30 years of experience providing occupational safety and health engineering support, primarily to the Department of Defense, construction, and healthcare industries. His research experience encompasses a wide variety of occupational hazards including exposures to chemicals, silica, hazardous drugs, and infectious aerosols. He is a registered professional engineer, a recognized expert in healthcare facility ventilation issues and serves on multiple committees within ASHRAE. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Mead has used his knowledge of controlling infectious aerosols and other contaminants in a leadership role during the development of CDC’s engineering controls and protective ventilation guidance.
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