#7.1 - Henry Burridge: Evaluating the Impact of School Ventilation on Learning and Health

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Henry Burridge - Is a Senior Lecturer in the Fluid Mechanics section in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London.
Henry has a background in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Imperial College London.
Following his PhD, Henry has worked as a Post Doctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge, initially in the Engineering Department and then in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.
Henry's research focuses on fluid mechanics for the built environment. And includes the practical application of this understanding to the human- and climate change-focused ventilation of buildings, amongst much more.
He is a Co-Investigator for the Tackling Air Pollution At Schools (TAPAS) network and the Future Urban Ventilation Network (FUVN): The Breathing City
Henry primarily applies his expertise to indoor air quality and ventilation, presenting evidence to the Common Select Committee for Health and Social Care and contributing to the Technical Advisory Panel on Ventilation for the Government's Cabinet Office, and being an author for the 'Indoor Air Quality and Health' chapter within the Chief Medical Officer’s annual report 2022: air pollution.
A focus area for him is schools, and Henry currently leads the initiative towards School Air Quality Monitoring for Health and Education via the SAMHE project, seeking to establish large-scale monitoring in UK schools and engage pupils with their school environment.
He is a Co-Investigator on CO-TRACE, investigating COVID-19 transmission in schools. And joint Principal-Investigator of the Department for Education's pilot project investigating the 'Changes In the Ventilation Of Schools when monitoring CO2.
Needless to say much of our discussion in the podcast was about schools, the challenges that particular sector faces, the impact of air quality on children and teachers and how projects like SAMHE are engaging kids in the science of air quality. We discussed much more of course including the value of observatories for indoor air quality.
Henry Burridge - https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/h.burridge
SAMHE - https://samhe.org.uk/
FUVN - https://breathingcity.org/
Chief Medical Officer’s annual report 2022: air pollution - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/chief-medical-officers-annual-report-2022-air-pollution

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