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Volts podcast transcript from November 19, 2025, hosted by David Roberts, featuring Dr. Georgia Lagoudas of the Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health. Topics include indoor air quality as a public health priority, the Clean Indoor Air Initiative, the Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air launched at the UN General Assembly in September 2025 declaring clean indoor air a fundamental human right, signed by France and Montenegro and approximately 165 organizations. Discussion covers climate change driving people indoors, wildfire smoke, COVID-19 and pandemic preparedness, biosecurity, biosafety, HEPA filters, air filtration, air purifiers, and Corsi-Rosenthal box fans. Lagoudas previously advised the US Senate, Department of State, and Biden White House on biosecurity.