Kevin Kennedy MPH, CIEC - Life & Times: A Career Dedicated to Advancing Healthy Indoor Environments and Communities

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Join IAQ Radio+ for Episode 789 as we welcome back Kevin Kennedy! We're excited to have Kevin with us for another installment of our Life & Times series, exploring his remarkable career and dedication to advancing healthy indoor environments and stronger communities. Join us for an engaging conversation about the people, experiences, and work that have helped shape his career and contributions to the industry. Learn more this week on IAQ Radio+! Kevin Kennedy has over 30 years’ experience as an environmental health scientist, including 21 years’ working at Children’s Mercy Kansas City (CMKC), where he retired in 2023. At CMKC he led the establishment of the Environmental Health Program (EHP). The program has assessed thousands of homes and schools, providing patient families, childcares, and schools with resources to assist them in identifying and reducing indoor environmental exposures that may result in health problems for children. During his time there, the program received over $7 million in program and research grants and won three national awards, including the HUD Secretary’s Award for Healthy Homes. Grant funding also supported a variety of research projects focusing on indoor environmental health issues, environmental allergens, home environmental interventions, exposure assessment, and more recently on geospatial analysis of health disparities and social determinants of health. Kevin was a co-author on more than 50 academic research publications and was the primary author of the Building Performance Institute’s Healthy Housing Principles Reference Guide. He teaches professional courses in environmental health assessment and investigations, environmental measurement and sampling, building science, and healthy homes. Kevin holds a Masters of Public Health from the University of Kansas Medical Center. He is also a Certified Indoor Environmental Consultant and previously worked as an environmental analytical chemist, research scientist in extractive metallurgy, and in a previous life, was a historic home restoration carpenter and woodworker. Over his 20+ years advocating for children’s health he has served on many national and local coalitions and committees advocating for the environment, better housing, climate change action, and understanding the community factors that have led to health disparities affecting children in the Kansas City region and across the US.

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