APIC and IFIC Fireside Chat: United for IPC: The role of national and international IPC societies and individuals to support global IPC strategies
Recorded On: 11/18/2022
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APIC and IFIC Fireside Chat: United for IPC: The role of national and international IPC societies/associations and individuals to support global IPC strategies
The COVID-19 pandemic brought much attention to Infection Prevention & Control (IPC) programs around the globe. Recently, the World Health Assembly (WHA) passed a monumental resolution concerning IPC programs, and as current IPC experts, we will find ourselves in a position of needing to participate in a meaningful way. Dr. Allegranzi, from the WHO’s IPC Hub will present an overview of the report from WHO on IPC, as well as the future directions for IPC. The role of the Global Infection Prevention and Control Network (GIPCN) will also be discussed as being instrumental in achieving global IPC goals in the future.
Learning Objectives:
Discuss the importance of the WHO’s Global Report on Infection Prevention and Control.
Outline global strategies for successfully addressing key issues in IPC.
Explain how an infection control society or individual can be involved in supporting global strategies for improving IPC in the future.
Professor Benedetta Allegranzi
Infectious Diseases Specialist
World Health Organization
Benedetta Allegranzi is an infectious diseases specialist, with Diplomas in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (University of Liverpool, UK) and Clinical Research (University of Geneva, Switzerland). From 1994 to 2006, she worked as infectious diseases and infection prevention and control (IPC) specialist and assistant professor at the University of Verona, Italy, as well as in Burundi, Malaysia and some other countries.
She now works at the World Health Organization (WHO) HQ since 2006, as the technical lead of the IPC Hub and the IPC Taskforce and co-lead of the IPC pillar of the WHO response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Benedetta Allegranzi is also Adjoint Professor at the Global Health Institute and at the Infection Control Programme, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva.
With her team, she has provided technical support to many countries in all continents and has led research in the field of health care associated infections, antimicrobial resistance, and IPC; she has been responsible for the development of many new global IPC guidelines and implementation strategies and tools, and two global campaigns on injection safety and hand hygiene (in 182 countries).
She is leading or senior author of 65 WHO official publications, and author or co-author of over 200 scientific publications, and more than 20 book chapters.
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