IPC Training Day - Behaviour change, quality improvement and leadership

11 June 2026

 

10:00 - 10:05 Welcome and introduction Chair
10:05 - 10:30 Leadership and use of audit in training

Martin Kiernan, University of West London, UK

10:30 – 11:10

Quality improvement in healthcare

Peter Lachman, Lead Faculty Quality Improvement Programme, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

11:10 - 11:30 Break

 

11:30 - 12:05

Human factors in infection prevention and control

James Tomlinson, Consultant Spinal Surgeon and Clinical Lead for Human Factors, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, UK

12:05 - 12:40

Behaviour change in IPC

Massar Dabbous, Research Fellow in Behavioural Science, UCL, UK

12:40 - 13:30

Lunch

 

13:30 - 14:05

Participatory approaches to learning in systems

Flora Haderer, Barmherzige Brüder Krankenhaus Graz, Austria

Chinedu Okoroafor, PALS IPC Multiplicator, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention

14:05 - 14:40 Leadership behaviours for quality improvement

Andrea Cortes, Improvement Deputy Director for Quality Improvement and Innovation, King's College Hospital, UK

14:40- 15:00 Break  
15:00 - 15:35

IPC and integration into WASH and other health quality of care programmes’

Doris Bota, Regional & Global Health Systems and Infection Prevention Ambassador, Kenya

15:35 - 15:40

Summary and close

 Chair