Safe Healthcare For All

SHEA Expresses Concern Over Removal from ACIP Workgroups and Reinforces Ongoing Public Health Commitment

Read our full statement here: https://shea-online.org/shea-expresses-concern-over-removal-from-acip-workgroups-and-reinforces-ongoing-public-health-commitment/

Join SHEA's Town Hall on August 12th at 4pm ET! We will be joined by Emily Sickbert-Bennett, System Executive Director of Infection Prevention at UNC Health, to discuss hand hygiene and infection prevention fundamentals.

Register here: http://bit.ly/4l6yQEf

Proud to see ASHE research spotlighted by CIDRAP!

✈️ Can’t attend in person? IDWeek offers a virtual registration option!

Register by August 2nd to take advantage of the advanced registration discount

👉 Don’t miss out: https://bit.ly/4o2zSUx

🧬 New episode of The ICHE Podcast!

Experts from @UCLAHealth join the podcast to explore the clinical utility, benefits, and pitfalls of the evolving role of plasma cell-free DNA metagenomic next-generation sequencing in infectious disease diagnosis.

Join us for the first session of SHEA's ‘Leveraging Patient Safety Culture & Clinical Team Engagement to Reduce HAIs’ series. We will identify the linkage between patient safety culture and clinical outcomes.

Register here: https://bit.ly/3TLnqKY

Join us for our upcoming webinar where we will review evidence for replacing disposable with reusable gowns from a sustainability perspective and describe the experience of a healthcare system in making the switch.

Register: https://bit.ly/44SoVfr

Join us on Thursday, July 24th at 2:00 – 3:00 pm ET for Converse & Convene: Management of IPC in Behavioral Health.

Register here: https://bit.ly/4m56s6p

Join us on July 9th at 4PM ET for a panel tackling surgical site infections in healthcare settings!

Register here: https://bit.ly/4lrogbi

Please join us on July 8th for ASPR’s panel of expert speakers to discuss how the Portable Biocontainment Unit can be used to help to limit the spread of high-consequence infectious diseases and save lives.

Register here: http://bit.ly/4eyeGRV

Reducing flu vaccines by eliminating thimerosal-containing ones may lower vaccination rates and increase hospitalizations and deaths. SHEA urges ACIP to rely on evidence when making decisions about safe, effective vaccines to help restore public trust.

ICHE and ASHE are partnering on a joint special collection focused on the role of artificial intelligence in infection prevention, hospital epidemiology, and antimicrobial stewardship.

🔗 Submit your paper here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antimicrobial-stewardship-and-healthcare-epidemiology/announcements/call-for-papers/call-for-papers-special-joint-collection-the-role-of-artificial-intelligence-in-infection-prevention-antimicrobial-stewardship-and-healthcare-epidemiology

The SHEA Spring Planning Committee has officially wrapped up the programming for SHEA Spring 2026! We’re excited to bring an insightful and impactful conference to Chicago this April. Stay tuned for more details!