InnoBRI focuses on studying the effects of structural interventions for mitigating the spread of pathogens in emergency departments. Therefore, InnoBRI brings together architects, engineers, epidemiologists, hospital hygiene and infection researchers as well as health economists to explore the means of pathogen transmission and the optimal design of architectural settings.

Based on a systematic literature analysis and observations of the World Health Organization (WHO), data from microbiological transmission studies and standardized interviews with users and experts, the team wants to identify possible structural interventions and convert them into parameter values. The scientists check their effectiveness in simulation studies.

The results are converted into model construction concepts and prepared as planning recommendations for hospitals. These can later serve as a basis for the federal states to standardize cost-benefit efficient new hospital buildings.