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Presentations
Welcome
Workshop Overview and Goals
Overview of the New World Health Organization (WHO) Terminology to Describe Respiratory Pathogen Transmission
Implications of the Terminology on Transmission
Case Study: Occupational Transmission of Meningococcal Disease
Panel #1: What are the Implications of Recognizing the Science on Aerosols and Air/Inhalation Transmission?
Panel #2: Health and Safety Perspectives on Control Measures Necessary to Prevent Air/Inhalation Transmission
Panel #3: Worker Perspectives on Control Measures Necessary to Prevent Air/Inhalation Transmission
Applying Findings from This Workshop
Case Study: Covid-19
Case Study: Pertussis
Action Steps
Mitchel Rosen, Rutgers University
Peg Seminario, Retired, AFL-CIO
Donald Milton, University of Maryland School of Public Health
Garrett Brown, Former Cal/OSHA Field Inspector and Special
Assistant to the Chief of Cal/OSHA
Moderator: David Michaels, George Washington University
Panelists:
Rachael Jones, Department of Environmental Health Sciences,
Fielding School of Public Health, University of
California Los Angeles
Lisa Brosseau, University of Minnesota
Deeg Gold, Retired, Cal/OSHA
Kate McPhaul, University of Maryland School of Public Health
Moderator: Jane Thomason, National Nurses United
Panelists:
Ken Mead, CDC/NIOSH
Tom Smith, 3Flow
Jim Chang, Safety and Environmental Health Department
University of Maryland Medical Center
Lisa Brosseau, University of Minnesota
Moderator: Peg Seminario, Retired, AFL-CIO
Panelists:
Kayla Pieschke, National Nurses Organizing
Committee/National Nurses United
Denise Abbott, CWA Local 1168
Lisa Valencia, Kaiser Permanente Microbiology, UFCW Local 7
Rita Lewis, Nurse Alliance of SEIU California
Liz Wade, California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Moderator: Jane Thomason, National Nurses United
Panelists:
Kate McPhaul, University of Maryland School of Public Health
Lisa Brosseau, University of Minnesota
Speaker:
Rocelyn de Leon-Minch, National Nurses United
• CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)—Upcoming Meetings
• Rutger’s School of Public Health Virtual Workshop
Preventing Aerosol-Transmissible Diseases in Healthcare Settings: The Need for Protective Guidelines and Standards (Oct 2023)
• World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global technical consultation report on proposed terminology for pathogens that transmit through the air
• WHO’s Airborne Risk Indoor Assessment (ARIA) tool
• National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
graphic comparing surgical masks, N95 respirators, and elastomeric half facepiece respirators
• National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory (NPPTL) at the National institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Cal/OSHA’s Aerosol Transmissible Diseases Standard (8 CCR Section 5199)
• Cal/OSHA’s Respiratory Protection in the Workplace—A Guide for Employers
• Minnesota Department of Health’s Airborne Infectious Disease Management: Methods for Temporary Negative Pressure Isolation
• Mead, K. “NIOSH Ventilated Headboard Provides Solution to Patient Isolation During an Epidemic,” April 14, 2020.
“It Is Time to Address Airborne Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19),” Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2020, 71(9): 2311-13.
“Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses,” Science, Aug 27, 2021, 373(6558).
• National Nurses United’s (NNU) resources on Covid-19.
• Meningitis case study- Materna, B., K. Harriman, et al., “Occupational Transmission ofNeisseria meningitidis--- California, 2009,”
MMWR, Nov. 19, 2010, 59(45): 1480-3.
• Article on the history of errors that led to droplet-airborne dichotomy- Molteni, M.,
“The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill,” WIRED, May 13, 2021.
• Klompas, M., D.K. Milton, et al.,
“Current Insights Into Respiratory Virus Transmission and Potential Implications for Infection Control Programs : A Narrative Review,”
Ann Intern Med, 2021, 174(12): 1710-18.
“Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review,” Clinical Microbiology Reviews, May 22, 2024.
• Report on SARS-1 outbreak from Canada from The SARS Commission (Dec 2006).
infectious diseases and respiratory protection:
o NASEM Covid-19 Responses & Resources
o NASEM Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: A Virtual Workshop
•. Brosseau, Lisa M., et al. "Preventing Aerosol-Transmissible Diseases in Healthcare Settings: The Need for Protective Guidelines and Standards—
Workshop Report." NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy 33.4 (2024): 236-247.
https://doi.org/10.1177/10482911231215498
•. Brosseau, Lisa M., et al. "The time has come to protect healthcare workers and patients from aerosol transmissible disease." Frontiers in Public
Health 12 (2024): 1378567. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1378567
•. Brosseau, Lisa M., et al. "Public health experts ask CDC director to broaden input on revisions to key infection control
guidelines." NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy 33.2-3 (2023): 165-173.
https://doi.org/10.1177/10482911231195898
•. Sietsema, Margaret, et al. "A control banding framework for protecting the US workforce from aerosol transmissible infectious disease
outbreaks with high public health consequences." Health security 17.2 (2019): 124-132. https://doi.org/10.1089/hs.2018.0103
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environmental medicine 57.5 (2015): 501-508. DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000448
•. Tang, Song, et al. "Aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2? Evidence, prevention and control."
Environment international 144 (2020): 106039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.106039
•. San Quentin Consolidated Writ Proceeding
SQ-Consolidated-Writ-Proceeding-Groups-1-3-FINAL-ORDER.pdf (sfpublicdefender.org)