Photo by: Shuyi Liao

Hand sanitizers have been placed across the DU campus in an effort to stop the spread of illness between students by the Health and Counseling Center.

DU invested in hand sanitizer this year because of the flu many are concerned about.  One hundred hand sanitizer dispensers have been installed in buildings where students and staff use most often.

“Increased accessibility will increase usage,” said Katie Dunker, assistant director at the Health and Counseling Center, “We know students will start to use it if we make it available.”

Dunker said the sanitizer was placed “where we think they will be utilized.  We tried to be thoughtful about where they went.”

A Hand Washing Campaign was conducted in the fall of 2007.  It was an experiment to determine when and where students would stop to wash their hands and use hand sanitizer.

The results of this study showed that students were less likely to stop by a door or when they were carrying things in their hands.  

It was using these results that the HCC determined where the sanitizers should be placed this fall.

The sanitizers were placed strategically where people would be stopping any way, such as by the café line in Daniels College of Business or next to elevators.