04/14/2026
Primary.Health is in the San Francisco Examiner for our part of a federally funded effort to detect respiratory pathogens in school air before outbreaks happen.
The idea: bring real-time airborne pathogen detection into classrooms. Monitor the air, identify what's circulating, and act before it spreads. We're studying it in a clinical trial so we can publish findings and drive policy that gives schools and public health teams a real head start.
Poppy leads this effort across a strong group of partners (Attune - formerly Senseware, Daikin Applied, Draper, Handix Scientific, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, Mosaic Design Labs, Primary.Health, Penn State University, University of Colorado Anschutz, University of Colorado, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, University of Nebraska Medical Center, University of Nottingham, University of Texas Medical Branch, with notable advisors from multiple fields)
This project is going to take years to get right. There's nothing fast about building something that works in thousands of schools across different climates, pathogens, and communities.
Every school deserves to know what's in the air their students breathe. Every parent deserves a heads-up before an outbreak hits. We have the science to make that real.
If you're a school leader, policy maker, or funder who wants to be part of what comes next, reach out.
https://tinyurl.com/t5rxbb8p
The system will debut at a San Francisco school later this year.
