VG Founder & CEO Drew Shula Joins IWBI Global Commission on Healthy Indoor Air
We’re honored to announce that Verdical Group’s Founder & CEO Drew Shula is serving on the Global Commission on Healthy Indoor Air to make healthy indoor air a global priority.
The Global Commission on Healthy Indoor Air is a high-level, solutions-focused leadership initiative led by the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI). As the world’s foremost alliance of global leaders uniting to advance healthy indoor air, its mission is to drive international progress on indoor air quality through bold, actionable recommendations and cross-sector collaboration.
The Global Commission is comprised of renowned international leaders and experts spanning public health, science, academia, policy and industry who are banding together to advance a Global Framework for Action for making healthy indoor environments the norm–not the exception–in all buildings everywhere.
By charting a bold path forward and delivering a transdisciplinary strategy, the Commission seeks to empower decision-makers, accelerate innovation, unlock new sources of funding, shape policy and raise public awareness such that the health, economic and societal benefits of healthy indoor air are recognized, prioritized and realized at scale.
Poor indoor air quality represents a pervasive public health crisis—one that demands urgent, coordinated global action. From homes and schools to workplaces and public spaces, poor indoor air contributes to respiratory diseases and illnesses, cardiovascular disease, cognitive decline and rising healthcare costs for billions of people around the world.
Today, people spend about 90% of their time indoors, where the air can be as much as three to five times more polluted than outdoor air. Though critical to human health and performance, indoor air quality has remained an underrecognized and long-neglected issue. The Global Commission on Healthy Indoor Air was created to change that.
Read more in IWBI’s press release here.
