Welcome to Session 5: Personal and Institutional Prevention

Whenever there is an outbreak of a new infectious disease, such as COVID-19, it is paramount to implement both personal and institutional prevention measures. In this session, we will discuss important preventative measures that every individual should take on a daily basis to keep themselves safe. In addition, we will discuss the preventive measures that institutions can take to decrease the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace.

After completing this session, you will be able to:

Discuss the prevention measures individuals can take to protect themselves from COVID-19 and from spreading the virus to other people
Understand what preventative measures institutions can take to prevent the spread the COVID-19

Guest Lecturers

Chloe Bryson-Cahn MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy & Infectious Diseases
Medical Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Harborview Medical Center
Associate Medical Director, Infection Prevention, Harborview Medical Center
Associate Medical Director, University of Washington Tele-Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (UW TASP)

Research interests include improving antimicrobial stewardship programs across WA State through the use of telehealth.

Marisa Baker MS, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
University of Washington

Dr. Marissa Baker is an Assistant Professor in the UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS). She also serves as program director of the industrial hygiene training program at the Northwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety, housed at DEOHS.

Dr. Baker's research has mostly focused on exposure to manganese in welders, shipyard and foundry workers. She received her PhD in Environmental and Occupational Hygiene from DEOHS in 2017. She received a competitive F31 fellowship from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. In 2016, Dr. Baker was awarded the Award for Young Exposure Scientists from the International Society of Exposure Scientists.

Based on her occupational studies of manganese exposures and health effects, she was invited to serve as a committee member for the International Agency for Research on Cancer in reviewing welding fume as a carcinogen.

Session (50 minutes)

Marissa Baker - Workers and the Workplace during COVID-19.pdf

Chloe Bryson-Cahn - Personal Hospital Prevention Measures.pdf

Download MP4 99MB

Reading

Aerosol and surface stability of SARS-CoV-2 as compared with SARS-CoV-1