The ILAQH has been conducting extensive studies related to infection spread over many years, including responses to the current COVID-19 pandemic. The ILAQH’s work in this field has layed a foundation for the understanding of particles from respiratory activities and infection spread including, the:
- size distribution and origin
- mechanisms of breath from human expirated aerosols
- burden of cough aerosols
- droplet fate in indoor environments and the impact of room ventilation
- risk of airborne infection transmission in indoor environments
- use of face masks
- airborne transmission and estimation of airborne viral emissions.
Publications (selected)
To view the complete list of publications on expiratory aerosols and infection spread
- “COVID-19 and Airborne Transmission: Science Rejected, Lives Lost. Can Society Do Better?” Clinical Infectious Diseases, ciad068, 2023
- “Increasing ventilation reduces SARS-CoV-2 airborne transmission in schools: a retrospective cohort study in Italy’s Marche region”. Frontiers in Public Health, 10: 1087087, 2022
- “A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat”. Nature, 611: 332-345, 2022. The paper was accessed over 186,000 times and has an Altmetric score of 5360, making it number 630 of over 22.6 million outputs, and is part of the top 0.1% of all research output ever tracked.
- “Healthy indoor air is our fundamental need: the time to act on this is now”. Medical Journal of Australia, 217(11): 578-581, 2022
- “The physics of respiratory particle generation, fate in the air, and inhalation”. Nature Physics Reviews, 4: 723-734, 2022
- “What Were the Historical Reasons for the Resistance to Recognizing Airborne Transmission during the COVID-19 Pandemic?” Indoor Air, 32: e13070, 2022
- “Practical Indicators for Risk of Airborne Transmission in Shared Indoor Environments and their Application to COVID-19 Outbreaks”. Environmental Science & Technology, 56: 1125-1137, 2022. In the first week of its publication, the Altmetric score was the highest ever for any article published in ES&T out of 18,394 outputs. It is also the 2nd “most read” article in the month of January 2022 the 4th most read article from the previous 12 months (13/01/2022)
- “Ventilation procedures to minimize the airborne transmission of viruses at schools submitted”. Building and Environment, 202: 108042, 2021
- “A paradigm shift to combat indoor respiratory infection”. Science, 372(6543): 689-691, 2021. In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric (14/05/2021)
- “Dismantling myths on the airborne transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)” Journal of Hospital Infection, 110: 89-96, 2021. This paper is ranked in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric (14/01/2022)
- “It is Time to Address Airborne Transmission of COVID-19”. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 71(9): 2311-2313, 2020
- “How can airborne transmission of COVID-19 indoors be minimised?”, Environment International, 142: 105832, 2020
- “Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2: the world should face the reality”, Environment International, 139: 105730, 2020. This was the most downloaded Environment International article for the month of May 2020. This paper is also ranked in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric (14/01/2022)
The Lancet COVID Commission Task Force on Safe Work, Safe School and Safe Travel:
- “Proposed Non-infectious Air Delivery Rates (NADR) for Reducing Exposure to Airborne Respiratory Infectious Diseases”. November 2022
- “The First Four Healthy Building Strategies Every Building Should Pursue to Reduce Risk from COVID-19”. July 2022
- “Designing infectious disease resilience into school buildings through improvements to ventilation and air cleaning”. April 2021
- “Building-related risk factors are a critical, but missing, component of SARS-CoV-2 outbreak investigations”. March 2021
OzSAGE:
- “Protecting children from COVID-19 and making schools and childcare safer”. 1 October 2021
- “Safe Indoor Air (Ventilation) Recommendations”. 6 September 2021
Editorial Articles, Other Professional Publications:
- “Ventilation reduces the risk of infection: why are we still ignoring it?” The Conversation, 1 December 2022
- “A Consensus Statement on SARS-CoV-2 Aerosol Dynamics”, OSF PrePrints Consensus Statement, 2022
- “Improving indoor ventilation: an overlooked COVID infection control strategy”. Croakey, 26 July 2021
- “Australia must get serious about airborne infection transmission. Here’s what we need to do”. The Conversation, 26 July 2021
- “More testing and surveillance needed for COVID-19”. Croaky, 24 March 2020
Plenary Presentations
Media
Videos
- “Ventilation revolution: reduce the spread of disease to save lives“, Media Release 3 September 2021. To View the Mandarin Version | To View the Arabic Version
- “Ventilation Stops the Spread“, Diffusion Science Radio Interview 11 August 2021
- “Combating airborne viruses indoors“, 2 August 2021
