Dr. Alexandra Peters, PhD is based at the institute of Global Health at the University of Geneva, and is the President of the Clean Hospitals group, a global network dedicated to making hospitals safer through improved environmental and hand hygiene. Clean Hospitals’ goal is to encourage cooperation between the public and private spheres, conduct and support academic research, promote inter-disciplinarity, and raise the standards for hygiene worldwide.

Alexandra’s background is in infection prevention and control and health security. She is passionate about infection prevention, planetary health, human behavior, and teaching.

Prof. Mitchell is an Professor Avondale University and work at the Central Coast Local Health District in New South Wales, Australia
Editor in Chief of Infection Disease and Health; credentialed expert in IPC
Areas of research and expertise: Healthcare environmental hygiene, surveillance, urinary tract infection and pneumonia.
He has published many papers in the area of environmental cleaning and is involved in clinical trials in this area.
Involved in the development of many State and national guidelines around IPC
Has worked in IPC at various levels and in different countries

Prof. Stephanie Dancer is a medical microbiologist in NHS Lanarkshire and Professor of Microbiology at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland. She edited the J Hospital Infection for over 20 years, five of them as chief editor, and currently edits Infect, Dis & Health and Int J Antimicrob Agents. She has been a member of NHS Scotland Decontamination; NHS Scotland ASSURE research scheme; UK NICE (infection control & antimicrobial prescribing); UK HTA (screening and diagnostics); ESCMID groups on infection control (ESGNI), MRSA & multi-resistant Gram-negative bacilli; and ECCMID conference committee. She advised DEFRA on surface cleaning during the COVID-19 pandemic and collaborated with an international group of virologists, physicists and engineers on airborne spread of SARS-CoV-2. She has published books, book chapters and over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals on hospital cleaning, antimicrobial agents, infection control and MRSA. At present, she balances editorial duties with teaching and research on the healthcare environment.

Prof. Weber MD, is a professor of medicine, pediatrics, and epidemiology; associate chief medical officer and medical director, Department of Infection Prevention at University of North Carolina (UNC), USA
Advisor to the World Health Organization on COVID-19 and Mpox with a focus on environmental contamination and disinfection
Member, Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee, CDC (Chair, NHSN, working group)
Vice-President, Society for Health Epidemiology of America; Deputy Editor, Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
Areas of research and expertise: HAIs, new and emerging diseases (e.g., COVID-19, Biothreats, Candida auris), vaccines, tuberculosis, sterilization/disinfection

Mr. Kiernan is a visiting professor at Richard Wells Research Centre, University of West London
Conjoint fellow at the University of Newcastle and Adjunct Honorary Research Fellow, Avondale University (New South Wales)
Areas of research and expertise: IPC, healthcare environmental hygiene, guidelines, healthcare-associated pneumonia and urinary catheter-associated infection. Particular interest in wet and dry surface biofilms, biocidal formulations, product efficacy, cleaning efficacy and behavioural interventions