Make aerosol science, ventilation, filtration, and community risk understandable to non-specialists.
Field dossier / 06 Advocacy
Clean indoor air becomes normal when people demand it.
Researchers can make the evidence hard to ignore. Standards bodies can write the floor. But public expectation is what turns clean indoor air from a technical issue into a civic norm.
IAQng should use this part of the site to celebrate people doing the work, invite nominations, and give organizations a reason to share the field map.
Advocacy roles
Public demand has more than one job.
Get clean-air tools, filters, monitors, and practical knowledge into schools, libraries, community spaces, and vulnerable settings.
Push institutions toward standards, transparency, budgets, maintenance, accountability, and durable clean-air policy.
Organizations and initiatives
Starting points for the public field map.
IAQ Advocates
A parent-led clean indoor air advocacy organization focused on K-12 schools, public education, and healthier shared learning spaces.
Clean Air Club
A community effort that brings portable air filtration to events and helps make clean air visible in everyday public life.
Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation
Advances low-cost clean-air education, kits, and community adoption of fan-filter filtration.
The John Snow Project
Public-health communication and advocacy around COVID-19, airborne transmission, and prevention.
Healthy Schools Network
Advocacy for healthier school environments, including indoor environmental quality and building conditions that affect children and staff.
Long COVID and disability advocates
Many of the strongest clean-air arguments come from people for whom indoor risk determines whether public life is accessible at all.
How IAQng can engage
Do not talk into a vacuum. Invite the field in.
- Publish "people doing the work" profiles that make organizations look good and link directly to their resources.
- Ask advocates what facilities teams misunderstand about clean air, and ask operators what advocates misunderstand about implementation.
- Create shareable field-map nominations: researchers, nonprofits, school-air projects, cleaning leaders, standards contributors, and local wins.
- Turn the guide into a participation object: source nominations, corrections, interview series, and public acknowledgments.
- Build a quarterly "state of room health" list that celebrates progress without pretending IAQng owns the movement.