Great The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand article on current #COVID priorities - appropriate emphasis on vaccination & engineering controls, alongside access to testing & #PPE where indicated. Well done to my ACIPC colleagues StephanMelb Matt Mason Peta-Anne Zimmerman and Sally Havers #IPCTwitter

There’s a lot that still needs to be done to control this pandemic. ACIPC we released a position statement and call for more testing, clean air and vaccination.

We need to do more to control COVID!

Stéphane Bouchoucha, Associate Head of School, International - Deakin School of Nursing & Midwifery, DeakinQPS, IHT, has co-authored a The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand article about ongoing #infectionprevention and control strategies for #COVID in Australia. Read more: bit.ly/3wdAMHr

Better late than never. An excellent position statement from a peak national body on infection control ACIPC

COVID continues to be a part of our lives. To learn more about our 6 protective steps to keep yourself and your loved ones safe, visit: go.vic.gov.au/48iMayZ 1/2🧵

Much better messaging in Victoria than across the State border…

A good take on the changes proposed to COVID isolation recommendations

Fantastic outcomes for Institute for Health Transformation researchers, congratulations to all!

Congratulations to Dr. James Lucas 🏳️‍🌈, Dr Amie O'Shea and Louisa Smith for securing more than $2.75 million in MRFF funding specifically for research projects to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for LGBTIQA+ people.

Prof Peter Collignon What nonsense. A flawed study with conclusions not supported by the results. And not even peer-reviewed. I have been a research professor for 30 years. If this study was submitted by an undergraduate research student I’d fail it

A reminder to register now for the 2024 GAMA Healthcare and ACIPC IPC Tour! Brisbane, Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne & Perth. Keynote speaker: Dr Jon Otter, Director of IPC, Guys' and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London. For more info follow this link: acipc.org.au/gama-ipc-tour-…

Great representation of Deakin University Dr. James Lucas 🏳️‍🌈 and others!

March ACIPC newsletter available now. Update on the Science of clean Indoor Air event organised by Burnet Institute

This from World Health Organization (WHO) CERN, together with the landmark publication yesterday on mandating indoor air quality standards (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…), is game-changing both for the here & now & for pandemic preparedness where it is the lowest handing fruit for protection. The

In an article on ABC News News, Stéphane Bouchoucha asks why aren't we aiming for zero hospital infections with COVID? Read more ab.co/3WLXce7 DeakinQPS

Testing patients on admission and ensuring staff wear masks are cost-effective measures to reduce hospital-acquired COVID-19 infections, research from Burnet and the Vic Department of Health, led by Fenella McAndrew, A/Prof Nick Scott and A/Prof Suman Majumdar shows.

ACIPC President Stéphane Bouchoucha has called for greater consistency between health services in mandating N95 masks, amid concerns about the high number of patients catching COVID-19 in Victorian hospitals. To read the full ABC News article, click here: abc.net.au/news/2024-05-0…

Hi everyone. We are partnering with people with Long COVID to write a rehabilitation textbook on the subject. Please feel free to pass on the attached invitation to anyone you feel would be interested. Institute for Health Transformation #CovidRehab Occupational Therapy for Long Covid OT at Deakin

I wrote a letter to Journal of Hospital Infection with Phil Norville to prompt discussion on getting towards standardisation of hospital wastewater sampling reflectionsipc.com/2024/05/22/tow… This should help us to meaningfully compare all of the hospital wastewater microbiology that's out there!