Global Handwashing Day

The Clean, Fed & Nurtured Community of Practice hosted a Webinar with Dr. Marie T. Ruel on the importance of cross-sectoral collaboration. Dr. Ruel is the Director of the International Food Policy Research Institute's (IFPRI) Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division , and the lead author of the 2013 Lancet Series paper: Nutrition-sensitive interventions and programmes: how can they help to accelerate progress in improving maternal and child nutrition ?  Clean, Fed & Nurtured is a global community of practice that brings together the sectors of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme (WASH) , nutrition, and ECD to promote child growth and development.

  The Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing is taking this opportunity to host a webinar discussing the importance of hand hygiene in healthcare , the challenges of achieving good hand hygiene , and lessons for improving hand hygiene in healthcare. Hear from experts from the World Health Organization , the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , and Johns Hopkins University on:  - Why hand hygiene is so important in healthcare ? - The state of hand hygiene in healthcare facilities around the world. - Hand hygiene lessons from Ebola.  - How to achieve hand hygiene behavior change: lessons from outside healthcare?