Infection Control in the Everyday Built Environment

This book provides basic knowledge required to make the spaces free from infection to architects, space planners, interior designers, hospital administrators, facility managers, single unit clinics, charitable dispensaries, auditoriums and public gathering space managers. This includes airborne infection control, vector borne infection control, fomite spread of infection and other interventions for other forms of infection. Apart from airborne infection spread, it also touches upon the issue of vector control of diseases through the built environment. It is based on evidence based design, backed by research and endorsed by practitioners.

This book serves as a handbook for most architects, space planners, interior designers, hospital administrators, facility managers of public spaces and even owners of small clinics. It addresses the multidisciplinary nature of the issue which aims at shaping the well-being of the building occupants with the contributions from the space designers.

Dr. Raja Singh has been working in the area of Performance based design of buildings. This ranges from work at the master’s degree level on fire performance of naturally ventilated buildings to the extensive work on Infection Control by Dilution Ventilation at the Doctoral Level. He has led classrooms for architects teaching infection control in the everyday built environment at School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi as a visiting faculty in the past. He has received a fellowship from the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, PA, USA for work related to toxic indoor pollutants and mesothelioma related work in India. He has been the Secretary of the Scientific and Technical Committee STC34 on IEQ Guidelines of ISIAQ, an international body working on Indoor Air Quality. He has published in internationally reputed journals like Environment International, Indoor and Built  Environment, Tobacco Prevention & Cessation, Cities & Health, Cureus Journal of Medical Sciences, Public Health Action, the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, the American Journal of Industrial Medicine and the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. He also serves as a peer reviewer for Cureus, Cities & Health and Indoor and Built Environment among others. He has addressed national and international gatherings and conferences and works actively in spearheading policy in this area. In the advocacy role, he has been pushing for airborne infection control in the built environment through judicial action in the Delhi High Court.  He has also been Built Environment and Public Health Research Fellow at Tathatara Foundation, Bobbili, India and Advisor, ISAC Centre for Built Environment Policy, India. He currently works as a researcher at The Built.

Dr. Nirupam Madaan is currently Medical Superintendent at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. She is also Professor in the Department of Hospital Administration. She has also been the in charge of the AIIMS COVID hospital during the pandemic. She was responsible for the planning and execution of the new RAK OPD, the upcoming National Centre for Ageing, the CSSD at AIIMS, New OPD in Provincial Hospital Jammu, waste disposal projects at grassroots-level rural hospitals in Jammu and more. She has worked in settings from primary level healthcare to the largest tertiary level care hospital in India. She has worked previously in the National Rural Health Mission. At the policy level, she was responsible for implementing Moily Commission Guidelines at AIIMS and was one of the first professionals to give a wakeup call for the provision of oxygen to small towns of India. She is also the recipient of the prestigious Chevening Gurukul Fellowship. She is an alumna of Sher-E-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar.  

Prof. Dr. Anil Dewan Former Dean of Research at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi which is an institute of National Importance created by an act of Parliament. He has decades of experience in the Healthcare design and planning sector, where he has led studios and designed healthcare facilities nationally and internationally. He also led an online teachers training program for architecture faculty on hospital design under the SWAYAM ARPIT Platform of the Government of India. He has previously worked for World Bank and is currently member of committees at NCDC, Delhi. He is also the Convener of MHD 14: P02 of the Bureau of Indian Standards dealing with Hospital Planning. He is an active speaker and is currently leading research in the area of Hospital Resilience, Indoor Air Quality and other topics related to infection control through the built environment. He has previously authored a book on Hospital Design and Planning published by Springer Nature. He has been working on hospital projects internationally.