Could a virtual Infection Prevention Service provide support in middle and low income countries? With Prof Gonzalo Bearman

<p>In this episode, Martin Kiernan talks to Professor Gonzalo Bearman, Chair, Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiologist/Medical Director of VCU Healthcare and the Richard P. Wenzel Professor of Internal Medicine at the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System (full CV <a href='https://medschool.vcu.edu/expertise/detail.html?ID=284'>here) </a></p> <p>Following on from the increase in virtual working due to the pandemic, we discuss the potential for providing healthcare facilities in low and middle income countries with virtual support and consulting. The papers that we discuss are listed here.</p> <p>1. Jones, T., Marimuthu, K., Bearman, G. Virtual Infection Prevention and Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 117, 2022, Pages 93-96, <a href='https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2022.01.065'>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2022.01.065</a>.</p> <p>2. Anderson, D., Miller, B., Chen, L., Adcock, L., Cook, E., Cromer, A., . . . Sexton, D. (2011). The Network Approach for Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections: Long-Term Effect of Participation in the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 32(4), 315-322. <a href='https://doi.org/10.1086/658940'>https://doi.org/10.1086/658940</a></p> <p>3.Pryor, R., Vokes, R., Anderson, D., & Bearman, G. (2021). Virtual infection prevention—The next frontier. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 42(11), 1374-1375. <a href='https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.1404'>https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.1404</a></p> <p> </p>