June 23 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Geneva
Live Virtual Event
An International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC) teleclass
The Role of the Environment in the Transmission of Infection – How Can We Intervene?
Prof. Elaine Cloutman-Green, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK
Free
Teleclass
Live broadcast time:
2:30pm-3:30pm in Geneva
8:30am in New York/Toronto
10:30pm in Sydney
9:30am in Buenos Aires
3:30pm in Riyadh
12:30 UTC
Objectives
- Explore the evidence for the built environment playing a role in transmission of infection in healthcare settings.
- Are all organisms linked to similar risk profiles?
- Are all built environments the same?
- Determine what kind of options are open for:
- Identifying the source
- Addressing the problem
- Continuous risk mitigation