WHO Webinar: Transforming IPC practice

Register now for the WHO EPI-WIN webinar: Transforming IPC practice: new tools and implementation approaches for outbreak preparedness and response

Date: 20 February 2026

Time: 12:00AM AEDT (2:00PM CET)

Online via Zoom

This webinar tackles one of the most critical areas in health emergencies: infection prevention and control (IPC) in health facilities and communities. It introduces the recently published WHO product entitled: Framework and toolkit for infection prevention and control outbreak preparedness, readiness and response implementation manual, and demonstrates, through regional and country experiences, practical tools and implementation approaches that countries can use to strengthen IPC before, during, and after outbreaks.

Recent large-scale outbreaks have highlighted how health facilities (HFs) with limited or no infection prevention and control (IPC) capacities can amplify emerging infectious disease transmission within facilities and communities and across borders. To mitigate the risk of disease transmission, WHO has developed the The Framework and toolkit for infection prevention and control outbreak preparedness, readiness and response at the national level (IPC-OFT) and the corresponding Implementation Manual, that is an actionable tool specifically designed to practical implementation, aiming to support the countries to improve the capacity to respond to public health emergencies. This webinar will present and discuss the implementation approaches for IPC outbreak preparedness, readiness and response.

 Objectives

Agenda and speakers

Introduction: EPI-WIN Science and Knowledge Translation, WHO

Welcome remarks: Dr Abdi Rahman Mahamud, Director, Health Emergency Alert & Response Operations, WHE, WHO headquarters

Overview of the Framework and toolkit for IPC outbreak implementation manual:
Profesor Maria Clara Padoveze, Senior associate professor, School of Nursing, University of Sao Paulo

Regional perspective:  Ms Ana Paula Coutinho, IPC focal point at the WHO Regional Office for Europe

Ukraine country experience: Dr Artem Horbachevskyi, Public Health Center, Ministry of Health, Ukraine

Utilizing the IPC framework for Epidemic Preparedness at Primary Health Care Facilities: Dr Amy Elizabeth Barrera, Resolve to save lives

Q&A: Dr Emilio Hornsey, UK-PHRST and Dr April Baller, Lead IPC and WASH, Safe and Scalable Care unit, WHE, WHO headquarters

Closing remarks and next steps: EPI-WIN Science and Knowledge Translation, WHO headquarters

Register here:

https://who.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LpS9Y0UMRkSdMP42Sa6Y3g#/registration