Victoria McCrary

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Victoria McCrary is a Ph.D. student at the Sustainable, Healthy, and Resilient Buildings Lab at Oregon State University, working with Dr. Parichehr Salimifard as her adviser. Victoria’s research interests are sustainable buildings, building electrification, and indoor air quality. Before joining Oregon State University, Victoria earned her Bachelors of Science in Computer Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University. Read More »

Erin Polka

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Erin is a research data analyst, working with Jonathan Buonocore at the Boston University School of Public Health. Her interests lie at the intersection of local and state climate mitigation strategies, health-informed decarbonization plans, and adaptation efforts that benefit both human and ecosystem health. Her current work involves researching the health impacts of the oil Read More »

Jonathan Buonocore, Sc.D.

Jonathan Buonocore, Sc.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health. His research mainly focuses on evaluating the health impacts of energy systems, and modeling health “co-benefits” of climate mitigation strategies and energy policies. He has evaluated air pollution related health impacts from a number of sectors, including electricity generation, transportation, Read More »

Danielle von Rechenberg-Paulsson, MA

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Danielle von Rechenberg-Paulsson is the Communications Manager with the Healthy Buildings Program at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is a purpose-driven communicator with diverse experience in international corporate and agency environments. Danielle is a strategic project leader with a strong passion to create shared value and make a difference to people and Read More »

Brian Sousa

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Brian is a Research Assistant for the Co-Benefits of the Build Environment (CoBE) study, which focuses on quantifying energy savings and health and climate co-benefits of improving sustainability in the built environment. He is currently working on development for the CoBE tool and the implementation of future features. Brian graduated in 2020 from Northeastern University Read More »

Gen Pei, PhD

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Gen Pei’s research focuses on building science, indoor air quality, infectious disease transmission, building materials, and energy-efficient and resilient buildings. Currently, he is working on developing effective interventions to mitigate infectious diseases transmission in buildings, and quantifying the health and climate benefits of energy-saving measures in buildings. His doctoral research established a measurement and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling framework Read More »

Parichehr Salimifard, PhD

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Dr. Parichehr Salimifard is an Assistant Professor at the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University. As a Co-PI of the Co-benefits of Built Environment (CoBE) project, she is leading the CoBE team at Oregon State University and collaborating with other CoBE team members at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Read More »

Joseph Allen, DSC, MPH, CIH

Dr. Joseph G. Allen is an associate 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 Can Make You Sick—or Keep You Well. Dr. Allen serves on Harvard’s Presidential Committee on Sustainability, he keynoted the White House’s first-ever Indoor Air Quality Read More »