Embracing novel thinking to safeguard against airborne pathogens in indoor spaces

Keywords: COVID-19; airborne disease; infection prevention and control; tuberculosis

Document Type: Editorial

Affiliations: 1: End TB Transmission Initiative – Powering Airborne IPC, Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership, Geneva, Switzerland;, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Oxford University, UK;, TB Proof, Cape Town, South Africa; 2: End TB Transmission Initiative – Powering Airborne IPC, Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership, Geneva, Switzerland;, Independent TB IPC Built Environment Consultant, Tshwane, South Africa;, Department of Architecture & Industrial Design, Tshwane University of Technology, Tshwane, South Africa; 3: End TB Transmission Initiative – Powering Airborne IPC, Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership, Geneva, Switzerland;, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD, USA; 4: End TB Transmission Initiative – Powering Airborne IPC, Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership, Geneva, Switzerland;, Clinical Center on Tuberculosis, Beijing Chest Hospital, Beijing, China; 5: End TB Transmission Initiative – Powering Airborne IPC, Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership, Geneva, Switzerland;, Bureau for Global Health, TB Division, United States Agency for International Development, Washington DC, USA; 6: End TB Transmission Initiative – Powering Airborne IPC, Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership, Geneva, Switzerland;, National Institute of TB and Respiratory Diseases, New Delhi, India; 7: End TB Transmission Initiative – Powering Airborne IPC, Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership, Geneva, Switzerland;, Final Approach Inc, Port Orange, United States of America; 8: End TB Transmission Initiative – Powering Airborne IPC, Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership, Geneva, Switzerland;, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, USA; 9: End TB Transmission Initiative – Powering Airborne IPC, Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership, Geneva, Switzerland;, KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, The Hague, The Netherlands; 10: End TB Transmission Initiative – Powering Airborne IPC, Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership, Geneva, Switzerland;, Independent Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Consultant, Helsinki, Finland; 11: Hospital Nacional Docente Madre Niño San Bartolome, Lima, Peru; 12: End TB Transmission Initiative – Powering Airborne IPC, Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership, Geneva, Switzerland;, Tuberculosis Platform, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa; 13: End TB Transmission Initiative – Powering Airborne IPC, Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership, Geneva, Switzerland;, Independent TB and Airborne IPC Consultant, Vladimir, Russia

Publication date: June 1, 2024