World Sepsis Congress 2021 – Opening Session Now Available on YouTube and as a Podcast

The Opening Session from the World Sepsis Congress 2021 is now available on YouTube (embedded above) and as a Podcast on Apple Podcasts (just search for World Sepsis Congress in your favorite podcast app).

It was chaired by Tex Kissoon from Canada, President of the Global Sepsis Alliance and Program Chair for WSC 2021, and features the following presentations and speakers:

  • The Major Global Health Threats in the 21st Century – Christopher Murray, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, USA

  • Role of Policy for Patient Safety – Jeremy Hunt, Chairman of the Health and Social Select Committee, UK

  • Towards a Better ‘Pandemic Peacetime’: Improving Routine Infectious Disease Surveillance to Better Respond to Future Emergencies – Jennifer Gardy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA

  • How Lessons from the Pandemic Can Help Reduce the Overall Burden of Sepsis – Hans Kluge, Regional Director for Europe, World Health Organization, Denmark

  • The Role of Politics in Fighting Pandemics – Keith Martin, Consortium of Universities for Global Health, USA

  • Vaccine Hesitancy – The Biggest Global Health Threat – Pauline Paterson, Vaccine Confidence Project, UK

Sessions are released weekly on Tuesdays. The next sessions will be ‘Combating Sepsis Is a Great Patient Safety Strategy’ and ‘Lessons Learned for Ending This and Preventing the Next Pandemic’ on May 4th, 2021.

World Sepsis Congress 2021 is a project by the Global Sepsis Alliance, initiator of World Sepsis Day and World Sepsis Congress.

Marvin Zick