The World Health Organization is hosting a webinar on 6 May 2024, 2:00-3:30 pm CET on why sharing knowledge about hand hygiene is still important, as part of its campaigning activities for World Hand Hygiene Day.
In the context of a multimodal improvement strategy, WHO will highlight the importance of training of health workers for sustainable improvement in infection prevention and control (IPC), including hand hygiene.
Many countries are demonstrating strong engagement and advancements in scaling-up IPC strategies and actions, but overall, the progress is slow, and gains are at risk. In multiple WHO surveys for example, training and education was the weakest component of IPC programmes around the world both at the national and facility level.
With a global workforce of 65 million health workers, this year's campaign focus on training and education and taking action on, for example, hand hygiene can help save lives.
Objectives
- To provide perspectives and evidence related to the value of IPC and hand hygiene education and training
- To outline WHHD 2024 resources and activities
- To showcase the best innovative education and training stories submitted to WHO
- To present an overview of the new global IPC in-service curriculum
- To present the WHO “My 5 Moments: The Game”
The webinar will be held in (5 UN languages)
Please contact ipcglobalcommunity@who.int with questions
Agenda
World Hand Hygiene Day 2024 - why is sharing knowledge about hand hygiene still so important?
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Session Chair – Dr Benedetta Allegranzi |
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| Time (CET) | Topic | Speaker |
| 2.00 pm | Welcome and opening remarks - Perspective on IPC education and training | Hugo Sax, Professor University of Zürich, Switzerland |
| 2:08 pm | Why is sharing knowledge about hand hygiene still so important? Why IPC and hand hygiene education and training should be in place for all | Benedetta Allegranzi, Unit Head, WHO IPC Hub |
| 2:18 pm | How can you use the WHO hand hygiene resources now and going forward? A summary of WHHD, 5 May 2024 resources and activities | Claire Kilpatrick, Consultant, WHO IPC Hub |
| 2:28 pm | Innovative IPC education and training stories: presentations of top 3 stories submitted to WHO | TBA |
| 2:46 pm | Introducing the new WHO Global IPC in-service curriculum: an overview | Mandy Deeves, Technical Officer, WHO IPC Hub |
| 2:56 pm | My 5 Moments: The Game” - Revolutionizing hand hygiene education |
Ermira Tartari, Consultant, WHO IPC Hub |
| 3:06 pm | Looking ahead: What can you do to advance IPC education in your region/country/facility? | Facilitator: Iman Heweidy, Technical Officer, WHO EMRO |
| 3:25 pm | Closing remarks |
Devin Jopp, CEO, APIC |
