In light of recent events and to ensure the health and safety of its speakers and attendees, the March 31 event will be open exclusively to live-stream attendees.

**As a bonus, the individual recorded sessions will be available after the event for paid participants to use for training and communication purposes.

The full-day plenary event will explore pandemic preparedness and the coronavirus from multiple angles, including strategies for training frontline workers, communicating with stakeholders during a pandemic, cleaning measurement and disinfection.

Session I: COVID-19: Virus Characteristics and Communications Strategies

• Crisis Communications and Risk Assessment by Patricia Olinger, JM, RBP Executive Director, Global Biorisk Advisory Council (GBAC), a Division of ISSA
• What You Need to Know About Pandemics and COVID-19 by Eugene Cole, Dr. PH., Director of Research, LRC Indoor Testing & Research

Session II: Testing, Assessment and Characteristics of High-Performance Cleaning & Disinfection

• How and Why We Test by Richard Shaughnessy, Ph.D., Director, Indoor Air Quality Research Program, University of Tulsa. And by Jordan Peccia, Ph.D. Associate professor of Environmental Engineering, Yale University

• High-Performance Cleaning — What It is and Why It is So Important by John Richter MSME, Clinical Faculty Member, Engineering Department, Miami University, Oxford, OH
• Meeting the Challenges Associated With Effective Disinfection by Greg Whiteley, Ph.D., Chairman, Whiteley Corporation, Adjunct Fellow, School of Medicine, Western Sydney University

Session III: Pandemic Preparedness, Worker Training, and Worker Safety and Protection

• Preparing for the Next Pandemic by Gavin Macgregor-Skinner BVSc, MSc, MPH, MRCVS Certified Forensic Operator®, Certified Bio-Forensic Restoration Specialist®
• Effective Training Strategies of Frontline Workers by Patricia Olinger JM, RBP, Executive Director, Global Biorisk Advisory Council (GBAC), a Division of ISSA

Registration Includes:

• Symposium Live-stream: March 31, 2020 8:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
• Access to video recordings of all symposium sessions.

Questions? - contact:

Shannon Hughes: shannon@ciriscience.org