Plenary

Prof. Didier Pittet, MD, MS, CBE Director, Infection Control and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, The University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Lead Adviser, Clean Care is Safer Care programme, Health and Services Delivery, WHO Headquarter, Geneva,...

Prof. Didier Pittet, MD, MS, CBE Director, Infection Control and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, The University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Lead Adviser, Clean Care is Safer Care programme, Health and Services Delivery, WHO Headquarter, Geneva,...

Heather Loveday 1 1 Director of Research, Richard Wells Research Centre   Partnership between service users and researchers is a cornerstone of the research and development strategy for NIHR in the UK and other international funding agencies. Active service user involvement contributes a diversity...

Jason Kwong1,2,3, Ben Howden1,2,3   1 Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria 2 Doherty Applied Microbial Genomics, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection & Immunity 3 Microbiological Diagnostic Unit...

Dr Jennie Wilson, Associate Professor, University of West London   It is widely recognised that surveillance plays a key role in preventing healthcare associated infections and many local and National surveillance programmes have developed in recent decades.  The experience of...

Dr Jennie Wilson, Associate Professor, University of West London   The evidence based medicine movement emerged in the 1980s when the randomised controlled trial became acknowledged as the gold standard for comparing the efficacy of treatments and critical summaries of...

Caroline Marshall1,2,3 1 Royal Melbourne Hospital 2 Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne 3 Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity   Outbreaks of healthcare associated pathogens occur on a regular basis. Recommendations exist on how to investigate and manage...

Philip L Russo1,2,3,4, Allen Cheng5,6, Brett G Mitchell4, Lisa Hall2   1 Deakin/Alfred Health Nursing Centre for Research, Deakin University, VIC 2 Institute of Health & Biomedical Innovation, School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology QLD...

Harvey G, Kitson A 1 The University of Adelaide, Adelaide Nursing School, Adelaide, SA, 5005, gillian.harvey@adelaide.edu.au 2 The University of Adelaide, Adelaide Nursing School, Adelaide, SA, 5005, alison.kitson@adelaide.edu.au   Drawing on an emerging body of evidence from implementation science, this...