Scholars@Duke
Antony Schwartz

Antony Schwartz

Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Family Medicine and Community Health, Occupational & Environmental
2424 Erwin Road, Box #2738 DUH, Hock Plaza I, Suite 204, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications

Innovation in Personal Protective Equipment Decontamination During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Powered-Air Purifying Respirator Hood Optimal Decontaminant Distribution System

Journal Article Applied Biosafety · December 1, 2025 Background: The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted critical shortages in personal protective equipment (PPE), particularly respirators, which limited healthcare workers’ safety worldwide. Decontamination and reuse of PPE, including powered-air purifying respira ... Full text Cite

Effectively implementing biosecurity policies.

Journal Article Science (New York, N.Y.) · April 2023 Full text Cite

Biosafety Needs to Redefine Itself as a Science

Journal Article Issues in Science and Technology · April 1, 2023 An expansion of today’s static definition of biosafety to include research for mitigating risk will advance both science and public safety. ... Full text Cite

Demographic and Salary Trends of the 2020 Biosafety Workforce.

Journal Article Applied biosafety : journal of the American Biological Safety Association · September 2021 Introduction: This study attempts to understand the demographics and salaries of the biosafety workforce worldwide. It builds upon previous surveys of biosafety professionals. Methods: Using multiple regression, this study explored what facto ... Full text Cite

Safe Science is Good Science

Journal Article Fine Focus · May 29, 2015 Open Access Link to item Cite

The Role of msa in Staphylococcus aureus Biofilm Formation.

Journal Article BMC microbiology · December 2008 BackgroundStaphylococcus aureus is an important pathogen that forms biofilms. The global regulator sarA is essential for biofilm formation. Since the modulator of sarA (msa) is required for full expression of sarA and regulates several virulence f ... Full text Cite