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Spotlight Series

CORHA's Spotlight Series looks at the successes and challenges experienced on the local, state, and national levels when responding to and managing HAI/AR outbreaks across the healthcare continuum. Featured stories also include leadership perspectives of key individuals to improve policies and practices for the detection, investigation, control, and prevention of HAI/AR outbreaks from members of the CORHA Governance Committee.

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CORHA Governance Committee CSTE Roundtable Discussion

On June 21, CORHA Governance Committee members Drs. Erin Epson and Dawn Terashita convened 150 people for a virtual roundtable discussion at the annual CSTE Conference where they provided...… Read More »

Introducing CORHA’s Principles and Practices for Healthcare Outbreak Response and its Importance

The field of healthcare epidemiology has expanded tremendously and now encompasses an extensive network of stakeholders working collaboratively across healthcare settings, government agencies, and partner organizations to decrease healthcare-associated...… Read More »

Jennifer Jones, 2023 McKnight Prize for Healthcare Outbreak Heroes Recipient

Posted: October 16, 2023 Jennifer Jones, Senior Infection Preventionist at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, part of Corewell Health in Grand Rapids, Michigan is the recipient of the 2023...… Read More »

Leadership Spotlight: Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian

Posted: August 29, 2023 Author: Natasha Bagdasarian, MD, MPH For almost 20 years, my career has focused on hospital epidemiology, infection prevention and control (IPC), and antimicrobial stewardship programs...… Read More »

Leadership: Dawn Terashita & Zachary Rubin, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health on the Future of HAI/AR Response in the Face of COVID-19

Posted: January 14, 2022 Authors: Dawn Terashita, MD, MPH, FACPM & Zachary Rubin, MD COVID-19 has impacted healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial-resistant (HAI/AR) threats across all healthcare settings. COVID-19 has...… Read More »

Leadership: Kelley Garner, Arkansas Department of Health, on the Value of Mentorship in the HAI/AR Outbreak Response

Posted: September 30, 2021 Author: Kelley Garner, MPH Don’t be afraid of mentorship at every level of your career – constantly surround yourself with experts in the field. Mentorship...… Read More »

Leadership: Leadership Perspectives from Dr. David Gifford

Posted: August 5, 2021 Author: David Gifford, MD, MPH My work over the past 20 years has focused on how to improve the healthcare system to ultimately improve healthcare...… Read More »

Leadership: Linda Greene, Director of Hospital Infection Prevention at the University of Rochester Highland Hospital

Posted: October 19, 2021 Author: Linda Greene, RN, MPS, CIC, FAPIC “…The greatest outbreak and infection prevention and control challenges I have witnessed were related to COVID-19.” As a front-line infection preventionist and Director of Infection...… Read More »

Leadership: New CDC Funding Recognizes Healthcare Outbreak Response Needs

Posted: December 9, 2021 Author: Joseph Perz, DrPH, MA The Biden-Harris Administration and CDC recently announced a $2.1 billion investment as part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP), to...… Read More »

Leadership: Pandemic Response – Public Health Laboratories Rise to the Challenges, with Kelly Wroblewski, Association of Public Health Laboratories

Posted: February 24, 2022 Author: Kelly Wroblewski Public health laboratories are foundational to our nation’s public health infrastructure. While the COVID-19 pandemic response presented many significant challenges for public...… Read More »

Disclaimer: The positions and views expressed in these materials do not necessarily represent the official positions of CORHA’s member organizations.