Julie Storr MBA, BN

Julie Storr is a graduate nurse from the University of Manchester, where she also trained as a Health Visitor. Julie has an MBA and has specialised in the prevention and control of infection within health care. Prior to her current position, Julie worked as Project Manager of the WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety's First Global Patient Safety Challenge, Clean Care is Safer Care.

She was the technical lead for South-East Asia and the Americas where she worked closely with WHO regional colleagues, senior clinicians and ministries of health in the implementation, scale-up and spread of a Multimodal Behaviour Change Strategy to improve essential infection prevention practices at the facility level. Julie was formerly Assistant Director, Infection Control, at the National Patient Safety Agency and Project Director of the Clean Your Hands campaign. In this role she was instrumental in the development, evaluation and scale-up of a pioneering approach to improving hand hygiene in health care.