Sepsis 2021: Rethinking Sepsis in Resource-Constrained Settings: The Viewpoint from Africa is happening virtually and for free this Thursday and Friday, October 28 and 29. If you haven’t registered yet, what are you waiting for?

The Sepsis 2021 Symposium is co-hosted by the International Sepsis Forum, the African Sepsis Alliance, and the Rwandan Emergency Care Association. Over two days, it will address the diagnosis, epidemiology, science, and clinical management of sepsis, taking into account both the situation in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) as well as the current COVID-19 situation.

This conference will be mostly virtual and focus on sepsis care worldwide, but especially care in LMICs.

It will also provide a unique opportunity to hear from and engage with international and African thought leaders from the fields of critical care, infectious diseases, internal medicine, and emergency medicine, who have extensive expertise in the clinical care, science, and investigation of sepsis and the host response, and in the design, implementation, and interpretation of clinical trials evaluating the efficacy of sepsis treatments. The current COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on sepsis will also be discussed.

Update October 26: The session is now available to rewatch on YouTube, embedded above.

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The upcoming World Health Summit will devote one session to discussing global and national strategies to combat sepsis. Said session will take place on October 24 at 14:00h CEST directly on Zoom (Zoom link) and will be hosted by our very own Abdulelah Alhawsawi. Besides Flavia Machado and Konrad Reinhart – both members of our Executive Committee – it will feature Janet Diaz from the World Health Organization, Carolin Fleischmann-Struzek from the Jena University Hospital, as well as Jean-Marc Cavaillon from the Institut Pasteur.

This session will provide new insights on the role of the immune system in sepsis and the potential of novel immunomodulatory therapeutic approaches, as well as offering an update on the burden of sepsis and an overview on the effectiveness of quality improvement strategies for sepsis prevention and care at the national and healthcare facility level. It will outline the challenges to fight sepsis in resource-limited settings and the lessons learned from the current pandemic for the fight against infections and sepsis by other pathogens.

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About WHS

World Health Summit is one of the leading international forums for global health. Every October, WHS draws international experts from academia, politics, the private sector, and civil society to Berlin. During the three-day summit, stakeholders and decision-makers from 100 countries and every field in healthcare work together to find solutions to global health challenges and set the agenda for a healthier future.

This year, there will be over 300 speakers from 100 nations across 50 sessions. Digital participation is free and possible without prior registration.

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Disclaimer: The World Health Summit is organized at the Charité University Hospital, Europe's largest university hospital, which also hosts the Global Sepsis Alliance. The GSA was directly involved in planning the session described above. The GSA and its members are not receiving monetary compensation from the WHS.

Update Oct 13: The form is now closed, thanks for your submissions.

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We are extending the deadline to upload your events to be featured on the 2021 WSD Event Poster to October 13 - Wednesday next week. Please submit your events by then using the form below.

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Important Instructions – Read Carefully

1. If you are not seeing the form (above, between the two lines), please enable JavaScript on your browser or use a different device.

2. Please note that you can only upload one picture per event (the poster gets too crowded otherwise) – please choose the best/the most representative one.

3. If you hosted multiple events, please submit them individually.

4. Since the poster will eventually be printed, please make sure to submit a high-quality image. Try to avoid compressed files. Compressing can happen when sending pictures through messengers, such as WhatsApp. In such a case, please get the original file from the person who took the picture, or ask that person to upload the picture directly. Uploads from mobile are possible.

5. Please use only the provided form to submit your events - we can’t use pictures that are emailed to us or sent through social media.

We plan to complete the poster by November, and we will make it available for download, as well as sent out printed copies, which you will be able to order free of charge as soon as the poster is completed.

Please point your colleagues and friends to our website to submit their events, especially if you know that they did an event for World Sepsis Day – thanks so much.

If you adhered to the instructions above and have problems, or for any other questions, please contact us.

It has been 18 months since the COVID-19 pandemic ruptured our world. The pandemic remains a constant natural pressure that leads to important adaptations. One salient adaptation is the need to secure continuing medical education. That is why the conference of the European Shock Society will take place as a free web conference this year.

Our everyday difficulties impose the need to become better. Following this mantra, the ESS has decided to seize this opportunity and offer a completely revamped conference, fitting for this day and age and more attractive younger colleagues. Major changes are

• the inclusion of short slots of presentations by world leaders in the field

• the integration of basic, translational, and clinical research

• the widening to other societies including the sister Shock societies, the Global Sepsis Alliance and the European Sepsis Alliance but also to the European sepsis research consortium ImmunoSep

• the use of a web platform that allows interaction between attendees in private rooms in parallel

• the publication of the presentations as a supplement in the journal Shock

To sign up or view the full program, please visit the conference website.

We are looking for a

Team Assistant

to become our fifth team member. You will be working part-time (20h a week) at the World Sepsis Day Head Office at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin, Germany.

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About Us

The Global Sepsis Alliance is a non-profit charity organization with the mission to provide global leadership to reduce the worldwide burden of sepsis. The GSA is the initiator of World Sepsis Day on September 13 and World Sepsis Congress, a series of free online congresses bringing knowledge about sepsis to all parts of the world, among other initiatives.

The GSA works closely with its over 100 member organizations, patient advocacy groups, professional societies, healthcare authorities, and governments to implement changes on how sepsis is prioritized, diagnosed, and treated all around the world, as laid out in the WHO Resolution on Sepsis.

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Tasks

• You assist the team scheduling and attending meetings, drafting agendas and minutes, making travel arrangements, preparing documents, liaising with suppliers, and more, as needs arise

• You manage our online store, keep track of stock, prepare and ship orders

• You support individual projects and preparatory accounting

• You organize team events and think about new concepts and formats

• You are the “good soul” of the team and make sure everybody finds the best

  conditions

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Requirements

• You are a true organizational talent, proactive, and a person you can always rely on

• You have everything under control and keep a cool head even in stressful situations

• You can familiarize yourself with new tasks quickly and easily

• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English (German helpful, but not mandatory)

• You like to work independently and do not need constant instructions “from above”, but think proactively

• Experience in office management, project management, in the hospitality industry, or as an assistant is an advantage, but not a must. It is more important to us that you bring the right attitude and that you are a positive and organized person.

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We Offer

• Diversified, exciting challenge in the fast-growing healthcare sector

• Modern IT infrastructure and possibility to work from home

• Opportunity to help shape sustainable structures in this young international non-

  profit organization with flat hierarchies

• Opportunity to involve yourself in global projects, possibility to increase hours or to

  be promoted to project manager in the future

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If you can identify yourself with the above requirements, we look forward to receiving your application via the GSA website. We ensure absolute discretion.

We are looking for a

Program Manager

to become our fourth team member. You will be working part-time (32h a week) at the World Sepsis Day Head Office at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin, Germany.

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About Us

The Global Sepsis Alliance is a non-profit charity organization with the mission to provide global leadership to reduce the worldwide burden of sepsis. The GSA is the initiator of World Sepsis Day on September 13 and World Sepsis Congress, a series of free online congresses bringing knowledge about sepsis to all parts of the world, among other initiatives.

The GSA works closely with its over 100 member organizations, patient advocacy groups, professional societies, healthcare authorities, and governments to implement changes on how sepsis is prioritized, diagnosed, and treated all around the world, as laid out in the WHO Resolution on Sepsis.

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Tasks

• You develop, execute, and monitor programs worldwide – these could be educational, focusing on awareness and advocacy, and much more

• You develop and execute a holistic strategy for our programs, new and existing

• You closely work with our Executive Committee, HQ Team, member organizations, partners, and sponsors

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Requirements

• You have at least three years of experience in developing programs on any scale

• You are creative and are not afraid to think big

• You can familiarize yourself with new tasks and circumstances quickly and easily

• You are an organizational talent, proactive, and a person you can always rely on

• You have everything under control and keep a cool head even in stressful situations

• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English (German

  helpful, but not mandatory)

• You like to work independently and do not need constant instructions “from above”,

  but think proactively

• You have successfully completed a university degree in any relevant field

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We offer

• Diversified, exciting challenge in the fast-growing healthcare sector

• Modern IT infrastructure and possibility to work from home

• Opportunity to help shape sustainable structures in this young international non-

  profit organization with flat hierarchies

• Opportunity to involve yourself in global projects and have a positive impact on the

  world

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If you can identify yourself with the above requirements, we look forward to receiving your application via the GSA website. We ensure absolute discretion.

Today – September 17 – is World Patient Safety Day.

No one should be harmed in healthcare. Yet thousands of patients across the world suffer avoidable harm or are put at risk of injury while receiving healthcare every single day. Women and newborns are especially at risk, did you know that every day:

• nearly 5,400 stillbirths occur

• 810 women lose their lives

• 6700 newborns lose their lives?

Most of these lives can be saved through the provision of safe care. This is especially important in the context of the disruption of health services due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has further compounded the situation.

Sepsis is one of the biggest threats to patient safety worldwide, affecting 47 to 50 million people a year, many of them preventable. Therefore, the Global Sepsis Alliance wholeheartedly supports World Patient Safety Day and encourages you to participate.

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#Uniteforsafecare Virtual Event

Our Friends from the Patient Safety Movement Foundation are hosting a free #Uniteforsafecare Virtual Event, happening today at 20:00h CEST.

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About World Patient Safety Day

Recognizing patient safety as a global health priority, all 194 WHO Member States at the 72nd World Health Assembly, in May 2019, endorsed the establishment of World Patient Safety Day (Resolution WHA72.6), to be marked annually on 17 September. The objectives of World Patient Safety Day are to increase public awareness and engagement, enhance global understanding, and spur global solidarity and action to promote patient safety.

Update 2, Oct 13: The form is now closed, thanks for your submissions.

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Update 1: We are extending the deadline to upload your events to be featured on the 2021 WSD Event Poster to October 13 - Wednesday next week. Please submit your events by then using the form below.

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Yesterday, September 13, was World Sepsis Day. Countless events all over the world raised awareness for sepsis, the most preventable cause of death worldwide - thank you so much for participating and contributing to saving lives worldwide.

Like in the last years, we will summarize all events on the 2021 WSD Event Poster - please upload your event now, it takes less than a minute. The form closes in two weeks, on September 28 - please upload your event before that date.

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Important Instructions – Read Carefully

1. If you are not seeing the form (above, between the two lines), please enable JavaScript on your browser or use a different device.

2. Please note that you can only upload one picture per event (the poster gets too crowded otherwise) – please choose the best/the most representative one.

3. If you hosted multiple events, please submit them individually.

4. Since the poster will eventually be printed, please make sure to submit a high-quality image. Try to avoid compressed files. Compressing can happen when sending pictures through messengers, such as WhatsApp. In such a case, please get the original file from the person who took the picture, or ask that person to upload the picture directly. Uploads from mobile are possible.

5. Please use only the provided form to submit your events - we can’t use pictures that are emailed to us or sent through social media.

We plan to complete the poster by November, and we will make it available for download, as well as sent out printed copies, which you will be able to order free of charge as soon as the poster is completed.

Please point your colleagues and friends to our website to submit their events, especially if you know that they did an event for World Sepsis Day – thanks so much.

If you adhered to the instructions above and have problems, or for any other questions, please contact us.