The Expert Panel, an independant body of global leading Hand Hygiene experts, chaired by Professor Didier Pittet, was appointed to:
- Review submissions using the WHO Hand Hygiene Self Assessment Framework.
- Decide on finalists.
- Perform audits in accordance with the WHO Hand Hygiene Self Assessment Framework, sharing expertise in hand hygiene and providing feedback on positive areas and on points that need further improvement.
- Decide on winners.
Professor Didier Pittet (Chair)
Former Director, Infection Control Program
Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève &
WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety
Switzerland
Lead Adviser, First Global Patient Safety Challenge "Clean Care is Safer Care" and "African Partnerships for Patient Safety" programmes
WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
Natacha Farquet, MD
International expert and consultant on infection prevention and control
Dr. Maria Luisa Moro
Head, Infectious Risk Unit, Agenzia Sanitaria e Sociale Regione Emilia-Romagna, Bologna, Italy
Coordinator of the Italian national campaign "Clean Care is Safer Care" and the national
healthcare-associated infections surveillance systems
Dr. Pierre Parneix
Public health physician and infectious disease prevention specialist at the Bordeaux University Hospital (France) Head of the Nouvelle Aquitaine Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Support Center (CPIAS NA) President of the French Society of Hospital Hygiene (SF2H) from 2015 to 2019 and from 2021 to 2025.
Prof. Anne Simon
Head, Infection Control Department, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium
Head of the Belgian national hand hygiene programme "Vous êtes en de bonnes mains (U bent in goede handen)"
Dr. Ermira Tartari
Research Fellow in the WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, Department of Infection Prevention and Control & at the University of Geneva Hospitals, Faculty of Medicine
Prof. Dr. Andreas Voss
Professor of Infection Control,
University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Andreas Widmer, MD,MS,FIDSA,FSHEA
Former Deputy Head Division of Infectious Diseases & Hospital Epidemiology and Head Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Founder and Past President of the National Surveillance System on Nosocomial Infections (Swissnoso)
Task Force Member "Clean Care is Safer Care" and "Safe Surgery Saves Lives" of the WHO Patient Safety Program
Executive board member “roundtableantibiotics”: www.roundtableantibiotics.ch
