{"id":1173,"date":"2024-02-08T12:06:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T17:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fabian\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=1173"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:26:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:26:30","slug":"patricia-fabian","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fabian\/profile\/patricia-fabian\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Fabian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>M. Patricia Fabi\u00e1n leads the Sustainable Built Environment Lab, and is an Associate Professor of the Department of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/about\/departments\/environmental-health\/\">Environmental Health<\/a> and Associate Director at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/\">Institute for Global Sustainability<\/a>. She grew up in Torre\u00f3n, Mexico, and studied Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Instituto Tecnol\u00f3gico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (<a href=\"https:\/\/tec.mx\/es\">ITESM<\/a>). She obtained an MS in Environmental Engineering at University of Colorado working with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/even\/faculty\/mark-hernandez\">Prof. Mark Hernandez<\/a>, studying ultraviolet light inactivation rates of aerosolized tuberculosis bacteria surrogates, and measuring bioaerosols in flooded homes. She worked as an indoor air quality consultant in Chicago before obtaining a doctorate in Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), developing methods to collect virus aerosols from the environment and exhaled breath with <a href=\"https:\/\/sph.umd.edu\/people\/donald-milton\">Prof. Donald Milton<\/a>. After completing postdoctoral work on mask efficiency at University of Massachusetts with Prof. Donald Milton, and in systems science and pediatric asthma with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/jonathan-levy\/\">Prof. Jonathan Levy<\/a> at HSPH and BUSPH, she joined the faculty at BUSPH. Hobbies: Girl Scouts, reading, traveling.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21683,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fabian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fabian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fabian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fabian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21683"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fabian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1884,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fabian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1173\/revisions\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fabian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}