Task Force on COVID-19 and Other Respiratory Infections

Chaired by renowned experts, and populated by dozens of thought leaders and authorities from across public health, medicine, design, real estate, government and academia, the Task Force on COVID-19 will both inform new Guidelines for Prevention and Preparedness, Resilience and Recovery and enhancements to the WELL Building Standard itself.

  • “This task force can help us focus quickly on actionable measures we can take to more fully deliver resources needed to advance a global culture of health that includes everyone.”

    Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., MBA

  • “This timely effort will mine the scientific literature to identify enhanced opportunities for the built environment to improve population health.”

    Jonathan Fielding, M.D., MPH, MA, MBA

  • “This pandemic is the challenge of our time and buildings will play a central role in our response, and ultimate recovery.“

    Joseph Allen, DSc, MPH

  • “Positively maximizing the interactive relationship between people’s health and the buildings and communities they live in is a social imperative. It’s in this direction that the IWBI Task Force will lead the conversation."

    Wang Yu, M.D., Ph.D.

  • “Advancing health and well-being through buildings is already a global movement and global collaborations such as the initiative by the IWBI Task Force can help strengthen healthy building standards and promote best practices around the world.”

    Wang Qingqin, Ph.D.

  • “This task force can help us focus quickly on actionable measures we can take to more fully deliver resources needed to advance a global culture of health that includes everyone.”

    Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., MBA

  • “This pandemic is the challenge of our time and buildings will play a central role in our response, and ultimate recovery.“

    Joseph Allen, DSc, MPH

  • “Positively maximizing the interactive relationship between people’s health and the buildings and communities they live in is a social imperative. It’s in this direction that the IWBI Task Force will lead the conversation."

    Wang Yu, M.D., Ph.D.

  • “Advancing health and well-being through buildings is already a global movement and global collaborations such as the initiative by the IWBI Task Force can help strengthen healthy building standards and promote best practices around the world.”

    Wang Qingqin, Ph.D.

  • “This task force can help us focus quickly on actionable measures we can take to more fully deliver resources needed to advance a global culture of health that includes everyone.”

    Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., MBA

  • “This timely effort will mine the scientific literature to identify enhanced opportunities for the built environment to improve population health.”

    Jonathan Fielding, M.D., MPH, MA, MBA

  • “This pandemic is the challenge of our time and buildings will play a central role in our response, and ultimate recovery.“

    Joseph Allen, DSc, MPH

  • “Positively maximizing the interactive relationship between people’s health and the buildings and communities they live in is a social imperative. It’s in this direction that the IWBI Task Force will lead the conversation."

    Wang Yu, M.D., Ph.D.

  • “Advancing health and well-being through buildings is already a global movement and global collaborations such as the initiative by the IWBI Task Force can help strengthen healthy building standards and promote best practices around the world.”

    Wang Qingqin, Ph.D.

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TASK FORCE GOALS

Shape the Future

  1. Inform new Guidelines for Prevention and Preparedness, Resilience and Recovery for individuals, organizations and communities to help them better integrate actionable insights and proven strategies into how they manage both their buildings and their organizations.

  2. Assess ways in which the WELL Building Standard (WELL) can be further strengthened to best continue to support prevention and preparedness, resiliency and recovery in this critical moment and into the future.

Meet the Task Force

Get to know the Task Force chairs

Meet the Task Force members

The Task Force represents more than 600 experts that have heeded a global call to action to contribute their knowledge to inform the development of new Guidelines for Prevention and Preparedness, Resilience and Recovery to help business and building leaders around the world integrate actionable insights and proven strategies in the fight against COVID-19 and other respiratory infections.

Go to Task Force directory

Prevention and Preparedness, Resilience and Recovery: An IWBI Special Report

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) initiated a Task Force on COVID-19 and Other Respiratory Infections, bringing together nearly 600 leading medical and public health practitioners, business and real estate professionals, building scientists, sustainability experts and members of academia.

The Task Force on COVID-19 heeded a global appeal to establish actionable insights and proven strategies for managing buildings and organizations. Prevention and Preparedness, Resilience and Recovery: An IWBI Special Report is a culminating resource that integrates strategies from the WELLBuilding Standard (WELL) and expertise from IWBI staff and Task Force members.

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