Meet The Consultant
Patricia ‘Patty’ Olinger
Biorisk Management
Global Impact
Public Health Leadership
Patty Olinger is a globally recognized leader in biorisk management, public health, and hygiene innovation, whose career uniquely spans sectors and borders—bringing together science, operations, and real-world implementation. Her work focuses on building practical systems that protect people, animals, and the environments they share, translating complex science into solutions that can be deployed and sustained.
Patty was a member of Emory University’s Team Ebola, where she helped establish biosafety and operational protocols to support healthcare provider safety and patient care. Later, while with ISSA, the world’s leading trade association for the cleaning industry, she developed and led the GBAC STAR™ Facility Accreditation Program, guiding organizations globally through safe operations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
She has contributed to international standards development, including ISO 35001:2019 for biorisk management, and continues to advocate for innovations in hygiene, surface decontamination, and environmental health. Today, Patty works with mission-driven organizations like Abradem to advance next-generation hygiene technologies—supporting safer, healthier environments across healthcare, food systems, public venues, and laboratories.
Building Healthier Environments
From Ebola to spas: advancing health, preparedness, and wellness across the built environment.
Patty believes the built environment is one of the most powerful tools we have to protect and elevate human health. From healthcare facilities to hospitality, agriculture to athletics, she champions a new standard in which indoor air quality, biological risk awareness, real-time insight, and cleaning-for-health are foundational, not optional.
She advocates for environments that don’t just monitor risk, but actively reduce it. Air systems provide meaningful visibility into indoor air quality, including real-time pathogen detection, while surface hygiene strategies are engineered to disrupt, safely reduce, and eliminate contamination at its source.
Her work advances innovation that moves beyond compliance toward performance: smarter IAQ strategies, integrated environmental intelligence, and advanced cleaning technologies that make hygiene measurable, proactive, and accountable.
Healthy buildings are not simply maintained; they are intentionally designed to resist biofilm formation, reduce microbial burden, and actively support human well-being.
Preparedness in Practice
Bridging health, systems, and real-world operations
Preparedness is not a plan on a shelf; it is a living system embedded into daily operations. Patty champions readiness that is practical, scalable, and grounded in real-world application.
Through breakthrough surface-disruption technologies like Abradem®, organizations address contamination at its source, strengthening resilience while elevating wellness and operational performance. The result is confidence: in the air people breathe, the surfaces they touch, and the systems that protect them.
Future-ready environments don’t happen by accident. They are built, maintained, and optimized with intention.