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November Awareness Month
2025-11-01 - 2025-11-30
CDC has designated November as C. diff Awareness Month to raise awareness about this potentially deadly threat. The CDC C.diff website includes resources and materials you can share with your colleagues, patients, and families about protecting against transmission. Additionally, C. diff Awareness Month coincides with National Family Caregivers Month, and National Hospice and Palliative Care Month. Whether you’re a healthcare provider, community partner, caregiver, advocate, or simply someone who wants to help spread the word—this resource hub is for you.

One Health Day
2025-11-03
November 3, 2025, marks 10 Years of One Health Day! The goal of One Health Day is to build the cultural will necessary for a sea change in how planetary health challenges are assessed and addressed and how professionals exchange information across disciplines.

APIC Virtual Symposium: Reducing Risk of CRBSIs in Hemodialysis Patients: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach
2025-11-04 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
Join APIC for an insightful presentation that features a patient’s perspective on living with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) and experiencing a catheter-related bloodstream infection (CRBSI) while receiving hemodialysis through a central venous catheter (CVC), and the perspective of an Infectious Disease physician who manages these patients and will review the risks of CRBSIs, strategies for prevention, and ways that multi-disciplinary teams can work together to protect patients.

Objectives:

Give an understanding of the challenges and risks faced by patients with ESKD who are receiving hemodialysis through a CVC.
Discuss the risks associated with CRBSIs and their impact on patient health and outcomes.
Explore clinical guidelines for preventing CRBSIs and the potential role of using additional measures such as a catheter lock solution to reduce risk.
Review clinical data on an antimicrobial lock solution that was recently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration
Discover ways for health care teams to collaborate to prevent CRBSIs and improve patient outcomes.

Cuppa Tea with an IP
2025-11-05 14:00 - 14:30, 2025-11-12 14:00 - 14:30, 2025-11-19 14:00 - 14:30, 2025-11-26 14:00 - 14:30
Every Wednesday at 2:00pm infection preventionist (IP) can join the VDH HAI/AR Team for Cuppa Tea with an IP. Cuppa Tea with an IP is a weekly chance to chat live with a VDH IP and subject matter experts (SMEs) about your infection prevention and control questions. We can’t wait to hear your questions and see how we can help.
Register once for the Cuppa Tea with an IP meetings and attend whenever you have questions or need a little IP peer boost.

SHEA/PIDS IPC & Healthcare Epidemiology Webinar – Infection Prevention and Control Considerations in Tuberculosis
2025-11-06 13:00 - 14:00
Join SHEA/PIDS for the next session in the Virtual Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) and Hospital Epidemiology Webinar Series, focusing on Infection Prevention and Control considerations in tuberculosis. This session will explore current strategies, challenges, and best practices in managing tuberculosis within healthcare settings, featuring insights from leading experts in the field.
Presenters:

Arthur Chang, MD – University of Nebraska Medical Center

Nabgha Farhat, MD; Maeve Marsh, MPH, CIC – Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

Gladys Griffin, MPH, CIC – Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

Expert Panel:

Ibukun C. Kalu, MD – Duke Children’s Hospital

Felicia Scaggs Huang, MD, MS – Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

Roshni Mathew, MD – Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital

Kathleen Ritger, MD, MPH – Chicago Department of Public Health

U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week
2025-11-18 - 2025-11-24
U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (USAAW), every November 18-24, raises awareness of the importance of appropriate antibiotic and antifungal use and the threat antimicrobial resistance (AR) poses to people, animal, plants, and their shared environment. CDC’s theme for USAAW 2025 is Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance Take All of Us. CDC champions using a One Health approach to fight antimicrobial resistance, recognizing the health of people closely connects to the health of animals, plants, and their shared environment (for example soil and water). Each day during USAAW, CDC will focus on a different theme and a variety of resources are available below to help you participate.

National Rural Health Day
2025-11-20
Celebrate National Rural Health Day with American Hospital Association. Rural hospitals and health systems provide vital care to their communities. See how the AHA is standing up for rural hospitals like ours with the 2025 AHA Rural Advocacy Agenda.

CIDRAP: Narrowing the Focus: Optimizing Antibiotic Spectrum through Diagnostic and Stewardship
2025-11-20 12:00 - 13:00
Please join on Nov 20 at 12:00 noon CST for a webinar on the ongoing challenge of unnecessary broad-spectrum antibiotic use and its associated risks, with a focus on sepsis care and pediatrics. This discussion will highlight opportunities to inform decision-making based on diagnostics, patient risk factors, and local epidemiology.
Presenters:

Tristan T. Timbrook, PharmD, MPH, MBA, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Utah College of Pharmacy; Infectious Diseases Pharmacist, Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Chanu Rhee, MD, MPH, Director, Center for Sepsis Epidemiology and Prevention Studies (SEPSIS), Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
Jeffrey S. Gerber, MD, PhD, Professor, Pediatrics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

CIDRAP-ASP outreach coordinator Marnie Peterson, PharmD, PhD, will moderate the webinar. Continuing Pharmacy, Medical, and Nursing Education credits are available.

CIDRAP Webinar on Cancer and Antimicrobial Resistance
2025-11-21 12:00 - 13:00
Join on November 21 for a 1-hour roundtable on the impact of antimicrobial resistance in cancer care. A panel of experts will discuss recent research, share key takeaways, and explore how stewardship and infection prevention can help protect patients. Register now!

VIPTC On-Demand Courses in Infection Prevention & Control
2025-11-30
For anyone looking to expand their leadership skills in the new year, the Virginia Infection Prevention Training Center (VIPTC) offers a variety of on-demand IP management and communications courses.
