OUR MISSION
Since the 1930s, we have had tools that prevent transmission of surface and airborne pathogens using ultraviolet light. Now it's time we make that accessible to everyone.
PROJECT OVERVIEW
The project involves installing Germicidal Ultra-Violet (GUV) lamps and related equipment in local shelters and engagement centers. The technology has been proven safe and cost-effective and, installed and maintained properly, kills over 90% of airborne pathogens in treated indoor spaces.
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Germicidal UltraViolet light (GUV) has been used for almost a century to protect people from infectious diseases and pandemics including but not limited to measles, influenza and tuberculosis (TB). It's not surprising then that it has also been the preferred choice to protect against COVID in many sectors – recent clients include the Pentagon, hospitals, elderly care, houses of worship, college campuses, schools and transportation – but to date, uptake in shelters and engagement centers has been minimal.
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We created this team as a result of a shared interest in bringing this superior solution into the spaces used by unhoused and medically vulnerable people. Our Founding Members include some of the world's leading research professionals, innovators/device makers and homeless industry veterans with the experience required to facilitate affordable, effective and successful implementations. We are the ideal team to help evaluate, design, fund, procure, install and maintain systems for improved indoor air quality and healthy facilities.
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Our partnership is fueled by our shared sense of urgency, as we strive to use available funds before they vanish in order to achieve these intertwined health equity/infection control objectives. We are actively seeking out community sites and are presenting our proposed model and approach to potential stakeholders.
We have successfully completed two homeless shelter GUV projects since 2020: Pine Street Inn in Boston self-financed its own GUV upgrade, while a private foundation underwrote GUV installations for several organizations in 10 buildings, five of them shelters, in Oklahoma City.
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Founded in 1969, Pine Street Inn is the largest homeless services provider in New England, and could not do our work without the support of our community of friends and supporters.
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Evaluation of the safety of room occupants in the Tuberculosis Ultraviolet Shelter Study (TUSS), a double-blind, placebo-controlled field trial of upper-room ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) at 14 homeless shelters in six U.S. cities from 1997 to 2004.
An alliance of medical, scientific, public health, economic, technology, academic, and business executive leaders working to deploy, evaluate, and share a suite of pragmatic interventions to build and sustain COVID-safe communities.
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