Clean Hospitals Day 2025: the human factors of healthcare environmental hygiene

Alexandra Peters^{1

2}, Martina Mocenic^{3

4}, Pierre Parneix⁵, Brett G Mitchell^{6

7}, Stephanie Dancer⁸, David J Weber⁹

Affiliations

¹ Clean Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland. alexandra.peters@unige.ch.
² University of Geneva Institute of Global Health, 9 Chemin des Mines, 1202, Geneva, Switzerland. alexandra.peters@unige.ch.
³ Department of Care Science, Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden.
⁴ Medical Faculty, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Pula, Croatia.
⁵ Nouvelle Aquitaine Healthcare-Associated Infection Control Centre, Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France.
⁶ School of Nursing and Health, Avondale University, Cooranbong, NSW, Australia.
⁷ Central Coast Local Health District, Gosford, NSW, Australia.
⁸ Department of Microbiology, NHS Lanarkshire, Glasgow, UK.
⁹ Department of Infection Prevention, UNC Medical Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Editorial

Alexandra Peters et al. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2025.

. 2025 Sep 30;14(1):111.

doi: 10.1186/s13756-025-01638-y.

Alexandra Peters^{1

2}, Martina Mocenic^{3

4}, Pierre Parneix⁵, Brett G Mitchell^{6

7}, Stephanie Dancer⁸, David J Weber⁹

¹ Clean Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland. alexandra.peters@unige.ch.
² University of Geneva Institute of Global Health, 9 Chemin des Mines, 1202, Geneva, Switzerland. alexandra.peters@unige.ch.
³ Department of Care Science, Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden.
⁴ Medical Faculty, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Pula, Croatia.
⁵ Nouvelle Aquitaine Healthcare-Associated Infection Control Centre, Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France.
⁶ School of Nursing and Health, Avondale University, Cooranbong, NSW, Australia.
⁷ Central Coast Local Health District, Gosford, NSW, Australia.
⁸ Department of Microbiology, NHS Lanarkshire, Glasgow, UK.
⁹ Department of Infection Prevention, UNC Medical Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: Health campaign; Healthcare environmental hygiene; Healthcare-associated infection; IPC; Infection prevention; Public health.

Conflict of interest statement

Declarations. Conflict of interest: None declared.

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