2026
October
October 6 Paul Webber Teleclass (2:30-3:30 CET)- Clean Hospitals Day 2026: Cleaner and Safer Care Starts with Empowered Staff by Dr. Alexandra Peters – Online
October 20 CLEAN HOSPITALS DAY – Join us to raise global awareness of healthcare environmental hygiene (HEH) and increase engagement of healthcare facilities (HCFs) around the world.
October 28 Think Tank – Curtis Donskey – Beyond high-touch surfaces: Floors and sink drains as sources of pathogen transmission – Online 3:30 p.m. CET
October 29 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS – IACS 2026 – Challenges and Innovation in Infection Control – Paulo Brois Presentation & Clean Hospitals Booth – Clean Hospitals: Advancing Healthcare Environmental Hygiene – Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal IACS 2026 Programme
November
November 12-14 18th Panhellenic Conference of the Hellenic Society for Infection Control (HSIC) – Dr. Alexandra Peters Presentation & Clean Hospitals Booth – Athens, Greece
2027
May
May 13-14 European Committee on Infection Control (EUCIC) Local Module – Alexandra Peters – “How Can IPC Nurses and Environmental Services (EVS) Staff Cooperate to Improve Hygiene?” – Gent, Belgium.
May 13-14 European Committee on Infection Control (EUCIC) Local Module – Paulo Brois – “Implementing IPC in the operating theatre: The role of the IPC nurse in a multidisciplinary environment” – Gent, Belgium.
2026
September
September 21 First Hospital Environmental Hygiene Symposium presented by Instituto de Gestão Estratégica de Saúde do Distrito Federal (IGESDF) – Clean Hospitals: A Global Network for Strengthening Environmental Hygiene – Dr. Alexandra Peters Virtual Talk – Brazil 3:30 pm CET
September 29 Think Tank – Aristotelis Papadimitriou – Candidozyma auris: Experiences from Greek Hospitals – Online 3:30 p.m. CET
August
August 20 Think Tank – Prof. Nizam Damani – Environmental cleaning in developing countries (issues and challenges) – Online 3:30 CET
July
July 9 Think Tank – Dr. Pierre Parneix – “Infection prevention: Perceptions, Barriers and Facilitators – Online 3:30 CET”
July 30 – August 2APSIC 2026: 12th International Congress of the Asia Pacific Society of Infection Control – Clean Hospitals Booth Setup – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
June
June 25 Think Tank – Prof. Martin Kiernan – “Who wants to grow up to be a hospital cleaner?” – Online 3:30 CET
May
May 6 A.I.S.E Hands Up for Ethanol Roundtable – Dr. Pierre Parneix to attend on behalf of Clean Hospitals – Brussels, Belgium.
May 7 Scientific Session – Dr. Marco Krewing (Hartmann Science Center)- “Small Lint Big Issue?” – 15:30 CET
May 19 Think Tank – Prof. Darla Goeres – “Navigating the interconnected path of model design, validated standard methods, and regulatory decision making for biofilm claims.”
April
Apr 14–17 Clean Hospitals booth & “Healthcare Experience”. Symposium by Prof. Brett Mitchell & Prof. Martin Kiernan: “What Makes Healthcare Cleaning So Different?” Interclean Amsterdam
Apr 23 Think Tank with Prof. Sasheela Ponnampalavanar on the topic of “Controlling Carbapenem Resistant Acinetobacter Baumannii in ICU: Lessons from Implementing Multimodal HEH in an LMIC Hospital.”
Apr 28-29 Clean Hospitals booth at Knowlex: The UK’s Leading Infection Prevention Control Conference presented by Michael Rollins at the National Conference Centre in Birmingham, England.
March
Mar 10 Dr. Alexandra Peters will present an overview of Clean Hospitals (CH) to IPAC Canada’s Environmental Hygiene Interest Group (EHIG)
Mar 17–19 Dr. Alexandra Peters will speak virtually at iClean Conference 2026, focusing on the work of Clean Hospitals and its global efforts to advance healthcare environmental hygiene and hand hygiene View event
Mar 19 Paulo Brois presenting “Clean Hospitals: Bringing All Actors Together for Safer and Cleaner Healthcare” at the International Congress on Infection Control CICI2026, Portugal (online)
Mar 31 Scientific Session “The Ethanol Debate: A Case Where Science and Politics Converge” by Dr. Marcus Rudolf Götz (Director R&D) and Dr. Martin May (Senior Scientist Toxikology) of Bode Chemie GmbH – a company of the HARTMANN GROUP
February
Feb 6 Think Tank – Prof. Vincent Chi-Chung Cheng & Prof. Shuk Ching Wong: “Evolution of Hand Hygiene in Hong Kong”
Feb 26–27 Paulo Brois – “Basics of Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections” (University Sjever, Croatia)
January
Jan 13 Think Tank – Prof. David Weber: “The New Paradigm for Infection Prevention & Control Departments”
2025
December
Dec 2 Think Tank – Isabelle da Ernestho Crespin: “Driving Change Together”
Dec 8 Clean Hospitals Info Session (Microsoft Teams)
Dec 11 Think Tank – Prof. Alexander Sundermann: “Pathogen Genomic Surveillance”
Dec 16 Clean Hospitals Stakeholder Meeting
November
Nov 11 Presentation – University Hospital of Zurich
Nov 13 Think Tank – Prof. Phil Carling: “Mitigating C. difficile in Hospitals”
October
Oct 7 CH Webber Teleclass – Dr. Alexandra Peters Join here
Oct 8 IPC Journal Club – Dr. Alexandra Peters More info
Oct 9 Presentation – Swiss School of Public Health
Oct 24 IACS Congress – Portugal
September
Sep 16–19 ICPIC Conference – Geneva
Sep 18 CH Stakeholder Meeting – Geneva
Sep 30 CH Day Planning Working Group – Martina Mocenic
