Safer shared air in the home webinar
Join us for the first in our 2026 webinar series: Safer shared air in the home.
Date: Tuesday 28th April
Time: 12:00pm AEST
Cost: Free
Registration: https://bit.ly/sap-home
While shared air is often discussed in the context of public spaces, it is just as important in our homes – where we all spend so much of our time. This webinar will explore how indoor air affects health and wellbeing in domestic environments, particularly when infections are present in the household, when family members are at higher risk, or when issues such as mould and other pollutants are present.
Drawing on research, lived experience and practical strategies, our speakers will discuss what people can do to improve the safety of their home environments and what current monitoring is revealing about the spaces we live in. Whether you’re caring for an at-risk family member, interested in healthy housing, or looking for practical ways to improve the air in your home, we’re sure you’ll enjoy this webinar.
Automatic closed captioning will be available. A recording of the event will be available online if you’re unable to attend the live session - please register and we’ll let you know when it’s available.
Webinar speakers
Prof Rebecca Bentley, BBSc (Hons) PhD, Healthy Housing CRE
Prof Rebecca Bentley (BBSc (Hons) PhD) is an internationally recognised researcher working at the intersection of housing, the built environment, health, and epidemiology. She is Director of the National Health and Medical Research Council Centre for Research Excellence in Healthy Housing, leads the Victorian Community of Practice of the NHMRC Healthy Environments and Lives Network and sits of the Global Commission for Healthy Indoor Air. Bentley's scholarship has been recognised by the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at Uni Melb with a Dame Kate Campbell Fellowship.
Jo Reynolds, Lived experience representative
Jo has a complex web of health problems, multiple of which intersect to make safe indoor air a crucial priority.
Pippa Soccio PhD Arch, BArch(Hons), BPD(Hons), CSIRO
Pippa Soccio is a Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO, where she leads the Social Impact and Living Labs team in the Energy Performance Group. She heads the Apartment Energy Behaviour Study, a four-year project monitoring energy use, indoor environmental quality (IEQ), and design factors across 430 apartments nationwide. With a PhD in Architecture (Building Science), Pippa views IEQ as a multi-sensory design challenge and advocates for holistic, biophilic approaches that link energy efficiency and occupant wellbeing. Her award-winning renovation, Pavone House, received the 2023 National Biophilic Design Award for Interiors and Renovation from the Australian Living Futures Institute.
Plum Stone, Founder of the Safer Air Project
Plum has worked in health policy and public affairs for the last 20 years, with experience in the UK Parliament, international public affairs agencies and in-house for patient advocacy organisations. Plum wrote her undergraduate dissertation on learning the lessons of pandemics of the past to prepare for pandemics of the future and has an MSc in Public Health (Nutrition).
As a result of Plum’s professional background, and personal lived experience with an immunocompromised and high-risk family, she has founded The Safer Air Project, with a mission to get indoor air quality recognised as a critical accessibility and inclusion issue for people living with chronic health conditions, in order to make indoor air safer for everyone to breathe.