Infection prevention and control
Located within the Integrated Health Services (IHS) department, the IPC Unit provides technical leadership and coordination of the infection prevention and control work at WHO headquarters.
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Webinar recordings

2024

10/16/24- Launch of Healthcare Associated Infections  (HAI) handbook on surveillance and case definitions for HAI surveillance 

 

5/6/2024- World Hand Hygiene Day 2024 - Why is sharing knowledge about hand hygiene still so important? 

2023

6/20/23- Global IPC CoP Ask the Expert Session Guidelines development a practical process perspective  

 

5/5/2023- WHO Global webinar -Partnership in action: accelerating improvements in hand hygiene and infection prevention and control 

 

4/25/2023- ASK THE EXPERT SERIES #2  Water and Sanitation for health facility improvement tool (WASH FIT) 

3/28/2023- Ask the expert series #1: Infection prevention and control assessment framework (IPCAF) 

 

2/28/2023 - WHO Infection Prevention and Control Global Community of Practice: Training health and care workers on IPC 

 

1/23/2023 – WHO Infection Prevention and Control Global Community of Practice: Implementation of Rapid Infection Prevention and Control Guidance in the Context of Hospital Outbreaks 

2022

Topic: World Hand Hygiene Day    

May 5, 2022 

Speakers:  Dr Hanan Balkhy, Assistant Director General, Antimicrobial Resistance, WHO HQ; Benedetta Allegranzi; Raheelah Ahmed, Global Engagement, School of Health Sciences; Health Management & Leadership, University of London, and Imperial College London, United Kingdom; Claire Kilpatrick, IPC Hub and Task Force, Integrated Health Services, UHC/Life Course, WHO HQ; Joanna Laurent Blaize, Dominica China Friendship Hospital, Dominica; Regina Kamoga, Community Health And Information Network (CHAIN), Uganda; Didier Pittet, Infection Control Programme and WHO Collaborating Center, University Hospitals of Geneva and Faculty of Medicine, Switzerland; Ann Thomas, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), UNICEF 

2021

Topic: Safe maternity care for all: The key role of IPC 

November 19, 2021 

 

Topic: Strengthening IPC in primary care: A new era starts today 

October 15, 2021 

 

Topic: New approaches for measuring national infection prevention and control minimum requirements and for preparedness, readiness and response to outbreak 

July 28, 2021 

 

Topic: World Hand Hygiene Day 2021: Effective Hand Hygiene at the Point of Care, Now More Than Ever – A High Level Meeting Convened by the WHO Deputy Director General 

May 5, 2021 

Speakers: 

Dr Andrei Rogoz; advisor to the Minister of Health, Ministry of Health, Romania 

Dr Samuel Kaba Akoriyea; Director of Institutional Care Division, Ghana Health Service, Ministry of Health, Ghana 

Dr Paula Daza; Public Health Undersecretary, Ministry of Health, Chile 

Dr Paul Kelly (Chief Medical Officer, Australian Government Department of Health, Australia) 

Dr Mohammad Mehdi Gouya; Director-General of Communicable Diseases, Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention, Ministry of Health, Islamic Republic of Iran and Dr Mohammad Hassan Aelami; Director, Infection Control and Prevention Center, Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad, Islamic Republic of Iran 

Dr Suraya binti Amir Husin; Head of IPC Unit, Medical Development Division, Ministry of Health, Malaysia and Dr Lee Yew Fong; Deputy Hospital Director, Sarawak General Hospital, Sarawak, Malaysia 

Mr Abdul-Nashiru Mohammed; Acting Regional Director for West Africa Wateraid 

Benedetta Allegranzi; WHO HQ IPC Hub & Maggie Montgomery; WHO HQ WASH Programme 

 

Topic: IPC and public health and social measures in light of the variants of concern 

April 21, 2021 

Speakers: Dr. Olivier Le Polain, WHO;  Tanja Schmidt, WHO Regional Office for Europe; Dr. Diamantis Plachouras, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control  

 

Topic: Infection prevention and control considerations in the management of health workers exposed to COVID-19 in the Region of the Americas 

March 9, 2021 

Speakers: Maya Allan, Epidemiologist, COVID-19 Global Surveillance System team, WHO-HQ; Denise Brandão de Assis, Regional coordinator, Infection Prevention and Control Program of São Paulo State, Brazil; Catalina Ramírez Hernándezv, National coordinator for the HAI surveillance and communicable diseases, Costa Rica