Webinar: Asthma-Friendly Schools: Strategies to Reduce the Risk of COVID-19 Transmission and Improve Indoor Air Quality

Recorded May 6, 2021

After you view the webinar, please complete the webinar evaluation to help us understand your indoor air quality (IAQ) knowledge and steps you want to take to assist your district with managing IAQ comprehensively. Once you submit the evaluation, you can download a certificate of completion for this webinar.

To receive your certificate:

1. You will receive the evaluation link for this webinar via email (from iaqschools@epa.gov).
2. Once you have completed and submitted your evaluation, you will have access to your completion certificate.
3. If you have technical difficulties, please send an email to iaqschools@epa.gov.

Register to view the webinar.

Moderator:

• Tracy Enger, Facilitator,  Indoor Environments Division, U.S. EPA, Washington, DC

Speakers:

• Elizabeth Friedman, M.D., M.P.H., Medical Director of Environmental Health,
  Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri; Director of the Region 7 Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit
• Shari L. Solomon, Esq., CIEC, President, CleanHealth Environmental, LLC, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Marjorie Cole, M.S.N., R.N., State School Nurse Consultant, Missouri Department of Health, St. Louis, Missouri
• Atenas Mena, M.S.N., R.N., CPN, Manager, School Health Services, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri
• Luke Gard, CIEC, Healthy Schools Program Manager, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri
• Shelby Rebeck, Director of Health Services, Shawnee Mission School District, Shawnee Mission, Kansas
• Tyler Clubb, Director of Facilities, Shawnee Mission School District, Shawnee Mission, Kansas

Participants will learn to:

• Implement IAQ management and layered risk-reduction strategies to reduce COVID-19 transmission and environmental asthma triggers in schools.
• Utilize guidance and tools from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to choose safer disinfectants, effectively clean school facilities, and provide recommended ventilation and filtration to not only mitigate the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission but to create healthy learning environments for all students and staff, including those with asthma.
• Apply best practices from environmental hygienists and health providers at a leading hospital-based community environmental health program to create asthma-friendly schools, protect occupant health and improve academic performance in schools through implementing proactive approaches for indoor environmental management.