Walter Zingg PD, MD

Dr Walter Zingg is a senior physician and consultant in the Infection Control Programme of the University of Geneva Hospitals in Switzerland. He has an honorary contract with the Imperial College London. His background is in paediatrics, infectious diseases and infection prevention and control (IPC). The publication list includes about 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals and various book chapters. He coordinated the European Commission-funded project “Prevention of Hospital Infection by Intervention and Training” (PROHIBIT) and was the main project manager and leading scientist in the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) initiated a systematic review and expert consensus to define key components in the organisation of IPC. He further acted as an expert for the WHO hand hygiene guideline, the most recent Joint Commission recommendations on central line-associated bloodstream Infections and in various ECDC HAI-Net meetings and he contributed to the new technical document for the ECDC point prevalence survey. He has research experience in multimodal prevention programmes on catheter-related bloodstream infections, in healthcare-associated infection (HAI) surveillance, in prevalence surveys, in economic aspects of nosocomial outbreaks, in systematic reviews, and in quality assessment patient safety studies. He organised three International Courses on Implementation in Infection Control.