Donald Milton

Donald K. Milton, MD, DrPH, is a Professor of Environmental Health at the University of Maryland School of Public Health, and the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Department of Medicine. An internationally recognized expert on the airborne transmission of respiratory viruses, Dr. Milton developed the concept of using indoor CO2 to directly measure rebreathed air and to estimate infection risk and the standard method for measuring for measuring viruses in exhaled breath. He is the Principal Investigator of the NIH-funded Evaluating Modes of Transmission (EMIT-2) study, a 5-year $15 million a transdisciplinary Controlled Human Influenza Virus Transmission Trial (CHIVITT) and a Roommate Cohort study of the impact of building ventilation on influenza transmission. He is a PI of the Public Health Aerobiology Lab (PHAB Lab). With a generous gift from the Balvi Filanthropic Foundation, the PHAB Lab is developing the scientific basis for improved control of airborne infection using germicidal ultraviolet light (GUV). Dr. Milton is and a member of the editorial board of Indoor Environments (Elsevier) and the WHO Guideline Development Group for Infection Protection and Control of Acute Respiratory Infections with Epidemic and Pandemic Potential.