With just 5 days to World Sepsis Day, we are excited to announce that the virtual photo booth for #WorldSepsisDay is back and now ready for your submissions.

The WSD Photo Booth is a ton of fun and an effortless way to show your support for World Sepsis Day – click here, snap a selfie or a group picture, and customize it to your liking by adding a frame, background, logo, stickers, or whatever you enjoy. Just in time for the official launch of the 2030 Global Agenda for Sepsis, the photo booth also features new stickers and backgrounds for you to show your support of the agenda.

Thanks for helping us raise awareness for sepsis worldwide – but most importantly, have fun!

On September 12, 2024, our friends from END SEPSIS: The Legacy of Rory Staunton will host the ‘8th Annual National Forum on Sepsis: Shaping A Federal Response to Sepsis’.

“2024 has been a pivotal year in the quest to develop real-world solutions to the sepsis crisis in the United States. Because of our work, millions in federal funding have been allocated to sepsis for the first time, In the 12 years since the death of our beautiful son Rory we have continued to make history, and this year, we will raise the bar to a new height, when for the first time in US history, legislation will be introduced in the United States Senate to put sepsis front and central in the business of the U.S. Government. Our 2024 Forum will include leaders from across government, healthcare, patient advocacy, and the private sector who have been responsible for transforming the nation’s approach to sepsis.”

— Orlaith Staunton, Mother of Rory Staunton and Co-Founder END SEPSIS

Join the leaders from across government, healthcare, patient advocacy and the private sector who have been responsible for transforming the nation’s approach to sepsis as they break down the impact of new policies and actions and share what’s next in the campaign to save lives, unburden our healthcare system and reduce the economic toll of this deadly condition.

The National Forum on Sepsis will be streamed to a global audience. CME Credits are available to participating Physicians and nursing staff.

The Caribbean Sepsis & AMR Alliance (CSA) is proud to announce the launch of its new website and unveil its official logo. This milestone marks an important step in the region’s fight against sepsis and antimicrobial resistance (AMR), two significant health challenges affecting millions globally.

“We are thrilled to launch our new website, which represents a significant step in empowering healthcare professionals and communities across the Caribbean to combat sepsis and antimicrobial resistance. This vital resource is dedicated to reducing the burden of sepsis across the Caribbean region. Our mission is to collaborate to raise awareness, prevent sepsis, enhance early detection, and promote best practices in treating sepsis, saving lives throughout the region.”

— Dr. Sandeep Maharaj & Dr. Satish Jankie, Co-Founders CSA

The CSA is dedicated to raising awareness, improving early diagnosis, and promoting the effective treatment of sepsis across the Caribbean. By providing a platform for collaboration between healthcare professionals, patient advocates, and government authorities, the CSA aims to bring the region closer to reducing the burden of sepsis and AMR.

The newly launched website offers a comprehensive resource for healthcare workers, policymakers, and the public, providing access to educational materials, upcoming events, and news on regional and global initiatives. It will serve as a key hub for information sharing and engagement across the Caribbean.

The CSA remains committed to working with its partners, especially the Global Sepsis Alliance and World Sepsis Day Movement, to foster a stronger, more resilient healthcare system capable of tackling these global health challenges.

On Thursday, September 12, 2024, the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, is hosting a 1-day conference in honor of World Sepsis Day. The conference is titled “Navigating Sepsis in Oncology: Innovations, Insights, and New Directions” and will include 11 diverse and relevant oncological sessions. The presentations will feature didactic lectures and patient stories.

Sepsis is associated with a staggering 11 million lives lost every year, worldwide. Vulnerable populations are the hardest hit, which includes immunocompromised patients. Objectives include improving our understanding of how sepsis is prevented, diagnosed, treated, and researched, and how that affects patients with cancer. This hybrid conference will provide a platform for insightful discussions and knowledge-sharing among medical physicians and staff. 5.5 CME hours are provided, and the registration fee is $25.

The Global Sepsis Alliance is delighted to announce that the ‘2030 Global Agenda for Sepsis’ will be officially launched at the German Parliament on September 10, 2024, starting at 15:30h Central European Summer Time (Berlin).

This historic event was made possible through the leadership of Prof. Dr. Andrew Ullmann, the Global Health Sub-Committee Chair in the German Bundestag, and continued strategic partnership with the UNITE Parliamentarians Network for Global Health, the Virchow Foundation, and the Sepsis Stiftung.

We are honored that Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus – Director-General of the World Health Organization – will deliver a special video message to the meeting participants. Dr. Tedros and Prof. Dr. Karl Lauterbach, the German Federal Minister of Health, will also extend Patronage to the 2024 World Sepsis Day campaigns convened in Berlin and globally. 

Over 50 representatives from sepsis stakeholders worldwide will attend the launch event, including patients and families, public institutions, academia, the private sector, and civil society.

The central piece of the meeting would be testimony from Mariah McKimbrough, an artist and sepsis survivor living in Fürth who has recently joined the Sepsis Stiftung as its Art Director.

Prof. Konrad Reinhart, Founding President of the GSA, and Dr. Mariam Jashi, CEO of the Global Sepsis Alliance and a former Member of Parliament of Georgia, will be joined by the following distinguished speakers and participants:

• Stefan Schwartze, Federal Government Commissioner for Patients

• Members of the Health Committee and Global Health Sub-committee of the German Bundestag 

• Mr. Roland Göhde, Co-founder and CEO of the Virchow Foundation and CEO of the German Health Alliance 

• Dr. Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe (Video Address)

• Prof. Dr. Axel R. Pries, President, World Health Summit

• Dr. Rudi Eggers, Director, Integrated Health Services, World Health Organization

• Prof. Djillali Annane, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

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About the 2030 Global Agenda for SepsiS

Dr. Mariam Jashi will present the 2030 Global Agenda for Sepsis as the first multi-year global strategy developed under the leadership of the Global Sepsis Alliance and with the engagement of patients and families affected by sepsis, as well as different stakeholders from national, regional, and global levels.

More than 70 partner and member organizations of the Global Sepsis Alliance and its Regional Sepsis Alliances across Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Caribbean, Eastern Mediterranean, Europe, Latin, and North America participated in the strategic planning dialogue around the 2030 Agenda. The process included multi-stakeholder discussions in parallel to the UN General Assembly Session in September 2023 in New York, the World Health Summit in October 2023 in Berlin, and the World Health Assembly in May 2024 in Geneva. The face-to-face meetings were followed by rounds of online discussions and consolidation of the final strategic document.

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How important is the 2030 Global Agenda for Sepsis?

• We continue losing 13 million children, women, and men every year to sepsis and yet, sepsis is practically invisible in global health dialogue and architecture

• 7 years after the adoption of the historic World Health Assembly Resolution, less than 10% of the UN Member states have prioritized sepsis

• Sepsis affecting almost 50 million people annually needs urgent and adequate political attention and investments from national governments, international development aid, global public-private partnerships, private sector, and innovative funding

• We need to continuously raise awareness of sepsis in our families and communities, and prioritize patient-centered sepsis policies in every country, every region, and globally

• We have to substantially expand R&D investments for sepsis innovations. We need new and more effective vaccines, diagnostics, therapies, care and rehabilitation commodities, and AI-enabled solutions to timely detect and provide time-critical, life-saving treatment

• Sepsis-related data is scarce, especially in low and middle-income countries, that bear 85% of the global sepsis burden. We need more and better quality of data and stronger accountability mechanisms for governments and other key stakeholders

• Finally, we have to strengthen community and health-system capacities for sepsis response during the peaceful development as well as the Pandemics, armed conflicts, humanitarian crises, and climate change

The 2030 Global Agenda for Sepsis through its 5 strategic pillars, presents a concrete vision of how to overcome the above challenges and gaps at policy, institutional, and community levels.

Through this document, we have a unique opportunity to make sepsis the next success story in global health and save millions of children, women, and men.

Please join us in celebrating the first global strategy and supporting the successful implementation of the 2030 Global Agenda for Sepsis.

For more details, please see the 2030 Global Agenda for Sepsis and join the livestream on September 10.

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Set Up Reminder

The Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA) and the European Sepsis Alliance (ESA) are proud to support Sepsis survivors in convening the first patient-led conference in Europe “Revealing the Burden of Sepsis”. The event will take place at the French Economic, Social and Environmental Committee (CESE) in Paris on 9 September.

This unique patient-driven conference will bring together the international sepsis community and will put at the centre of the discussion the profound impact of sepsis on patients, survivors, and their families. 

The presentations will share testimonials from sepsis survivors and families affected by this medical emergency, as well as experts’ perspectives on how to increase awareness globally and promote best practices in prevention, diagnostics, treatment and care for Sepsis.

The Global Sepsis Alliance CEO, Dr Mariam Jashi will join the conference in person and present the 2030 Global Agenda for Sepsis (the first multi-year global strategy), scheduled to launched on September 10 at the German Parliament.

Dr. Mariam Jashi - CEO, Global Sepsis Alliance.

“The 2030 Global Agenda for Sepsis calls for active engagement of patients and families in awareness-raising and advocacy efforts for national policies, patient-focused protocols, novel vaccines, diagnostics, therapies and AI solutions for Sepsis. I applaud the organisers and participating patient organisations for this benchmarking event. We hope that the Paris conference and its outcome Call-for-Action from Sepsis survivors will help policymakers in the European region and globally to take relevant actions for reducing the heavy burden of Sepsis on individuals and broader societies”, said Dr. Mariam Jashi CEO of the Global Sepsis Alliance.

To register and participate, either in-person or online, click on the button below.

On the margins of the 2024 World Sepsis Day, the Global Sepsis Alliance and the European Sepsis Alliance are joining the Sepsis Stiftung in convening an international symposium on the role of the immune system in the fight against sepsis. The event is also supported by the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, the Berliner Medizinische Gesellschaft, and the Germany Recognizes Sepsis campaign.

“The COVID-19 pandemic confirmed the live-saving effectiveness of vaccination and immunomodulatory therapeutic interventions.”

— Prof. Dr. Konrad Reinhart, President Sepsis Stiftung and Founding President GSA

The international symposium will focus on the critical importance of the immune system in effective prevention and treatment of sepsis. Throughout two main sessions of the symposium – vaccination and immunomodulation – 8 globally renowned speakers will share their perspectives and recommendations on the potential of vaccination for sepsis prevention, lessons learned for vaccine development, how to combat distorted medical information in the digital age, personalized immunotherapy in for septic patients, and much more.

We are especially excited to announce that the symposium is under the patronage of Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General WHO, Prof. Dr. Karl Lauterbach, Federal Minister of Health, Germany, and Kai Wegner, The Governing Mayor of Berlin, Germany.

The event takes place in Berlin, Germany, on Wednesday, September 11, 2024, starting at 10h Central European Summer Time.

If you are in Berlin, please register to join in person using the form below. If not, you can participate via the free live stream on YouTube (embedded above).

We are looking forward to welcoming you on September 11.

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Register / Set Up Reminder for Livestream

Please use the form below to participate in person in Berlin or receive a reminder e-mail once the live stream starts.

The Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA) is pleased to announce that the Caribbean Sepsis Alliance (CSA) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health Guyana and The University of the West Indies St. Augustine is hosting a significant event this Saturday, July 27th, 2024, at the Marriott Hotel in Georgetown, Guyana. The Climate Change, Health, Sepsis, and Justice Conference promises to advance the fight against sepsis with insights from leading experts.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to gain valuable insights from leading experts like Prof. Niranjan ‘Tex’ Kissoon, President of the Global Sepsis Alliance, and Prof. Mala Rao. This conference will address crucial topics such as:

• The impact of climate change on health

• Antimicrobial resistance and sepsis

• Planetary health and more 

Earn 3 CME credits while enhancing your knowledge and contributing to global health advancements.

This event will feature a keynote address on climate, health, and justice by Prof. Mala Rao, and talks held by other esteemed experts such as Prof. Hariharan Seetharaman on research collaboration, Prof. Dilip Dan on postgraduate training, and Dr. Satish Jankie on the Caribbean Sepsis and AMR Alliance opportunities.

The conference aims to address the intersection of climate change and health, particularly focusing on the impacts on sepsis and broader justice issues globally and within the Caribbean region.

This initiative by the Caribbean Sepsis Alliance is a pivotal step in fostering awareness, driving research, and shaping policies to combat sepsis. The GSA supports this event is proud to see Prof. Kissoon participating.

 Join this crucial dialogue to protect health and save lives.

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