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Communicable disease preparedness: Aircraft cabin disease dispersion study for model validation

This research supports the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA’s) Aviation Safety Research Strategy Public Health Preparedness thrust and depends on access to National Research Council Canada’s Centre for Air Travel Research facility. To strengthen public health preparedness, the Office of Aerospace Medicine must quantitatively model disease transmission risk in commercial aviation and evaluate mitigation strategies. Building on preliminary work under prior work, risk analysis models have been developed for interagency Safety Risk Management (SRM) use, with broader dissemination to public health planners, industry, and academia in FY27-28. This project directly responds to the final recommendation of GAO-22-104579, which highlighted critical gaps in prior models. The project will publish key human behavior and ventilation datasets, enabling peer review, independent replication, and expanded application.