We are excited that the Georgia Tech team of Sundaresan Jayaraman and Sungmee Park has been selected as one of the 20 Phase 1 winners of NIOSH’s Respirator Fit Evaluation Challenge! We are thrilled for them to be recognized for their innovative approach to respirator fit evaluation. They will compete in Phase 2 where they willNIOSH Respirator Fit Evaluation Challenge Phase 1 prototype their solution.

To learn more about the challenge and the other winners: 

https://challenges.capconcorp.com/respiratory-fit-evaluation-challenge/home/winners/

https://www.challenge.gov/?challenge=niosh-respirator-fit-evaluation-challenge&tab=winners

Challenge Goal

The NIOSH Respirator Fit Evaluation Challenge will crowdsource novel technologies and innovative approaches that deliver immediate evaluation and feedback to end users about the fit of filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs) during use. Solutions should consider how to provide immediate feedback to a diverse group of end users, including faces within the NIOSH anthropometric grid as well as faces of under-represented populations or those falling on the edges of the NIOSH anthropometric grid are encouraged.