Joseph Allen

Sep 4, 2024 | ajph.aphapublications.org | Joseph Allen

The history of ventilation is fraught, indeed. We are in the sick building era, ushered in by a historic mistake in the 1970s with the promulgation of a standard that lowered ventilation rates in nearly every building we spend our time, and which represented a gross departure from earlier health-focused higher ventilation targets.

Jul 15, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Joseph Allen

Joseph G. Allen is an associate professor and director of the Healthy Buildings program at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Have you ever felt as though the temperatures your local weather app reported failed to capture how it felt outside? Well, you were right. That’s because how we talk about hot weather is seriously flawed. As heat waves become more intense and more frequent because of climate change, we need to change the way we think about outdoor temperatures.

May 28, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Joseph Allen

Democracy Dies in DarknessJoseph G. Allen is associate professor at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and director of Harvard’s Healthy Buildings program. The Environmental Protection Agency earned praise last month for its first-ever drinking water standard for forever chemicals, and rightly so. But there’s a catch: The standard would regulate only six of these chemicals, and already more than 10,000 forever chemicals face no such restrictions.

Mar 27, 2024 | bioprocessintl.com | Brian Gazaille |Joseph Allen |Katalin Karikó |Dennis Liotta

Messenger RNA (mRNA) and nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) represent two of today’s most discussed pharmaceutical modalities. The former drug class has become a household name because of its critical role in ameliorating the COVID-19 pandemic.

Feb 29, 2024 | ivpressonline.com | Joseph Allen

Durante 43 años, la Ley Bayh-Dole ha impulsado la innovación estadounidense. Proporciona los incentivos necesarios para transformar invenciones de ideas de laboratorio en productos útiles, mejorando vidas aquí y en todo el mundo. Permite a las universidades y pequeñas empresas conservar la propiedad de lo que inventan si utilizan fondos federales para hacerlo.