World Sepsis Day- Making Sepsis a National and Global Health Priority

Start

Fri, 16 Sep 2022, 11:00

End

Fri, 16 Sep 2022, 20:00

WebSite

Venue:

Hybrid Event

On September 16, 2022, the Global Sepsis Alliance and the Sepsis Stiftung will join forces to host a unique event celebrating a decade of World Sepsis Day – both in person in Berlin, as well as live streamed on this website.

The event is split up into 3 parts – a scientific symposium with renowned speakers from all over the world, an international best-practices panel, and a celebration and fundraising dinner in the evening.

Exhibit

Symposia

World Sepsis Day- Making Sepsis a National and Global Health Priority

Participants and Speakers:

Policymakers, representatives of health authorities, patient organization, health providers, science, industry and civil society from the 4 corners of the world.

Members of the WHO including the Director General Dr. Tedros.

The G7 is invited to the event.

180 persons are expected during the day.

Abionic’s presence as Gold Sponsor

*Exhibit Space at venue: Abionic will be present to introduce its nanofluidic solution enabling the rapid quantification of Pancreatic Stone Protein as an early biomarker of Sepsis.

*Abionic will be present at the roundtable scientific networking session with key opinion leaders and members of the GSA and Sepsis Foundation board and executive team.

Presentation of the PSP as presymptomatic diagnosis of nosocomial sepsis and a true enabler in the fight against antibiotic resistance.

*COVID-19 testing: To ensure the safety of all, a COVID-19 test will be performed on all participants and speakers at the event entrance (mandatory). About 200 people will be tested with the 2-Minute COVID-19 Saliva test by Abionic (Gold Sponsor).

Workshops

Organiser

Sponsor

It was exactly a decade ago that we organized the inaugural World Sepsis Day. Since then, we have made great progress in our fight against sepsis, and sepsis awareness has markedly risen around the globe. A milestone in this respect was the adoption of the World Health Assembly 70.7 Resolution in 2017. However, even today, only a few governments have followed the Resolution’s call to action: Many nations still need to implement concrete measures in their healthcare systems to make sepsis a priority.

In response to this demand, the recent G7 Health Ministers’ and Leaders’ Communiqués urge governments to “boost the implementation of the WHA Resolution”. In particular, the Communiqué emphasizes the need to “intensify the efforts to strengthen early detection, diagnosis, and therapy of sepsis, and ensure synergy with antimicrobial stewardship and Infection Prevention and Control programs”.

Thus, while celebrating the remarkable progress of sepsis advocacy and clinical systems advancements over the past decade, this event aims to pave the way to make sepsis a global and national health priority. Despite all advances, sepsis still accounts for a staggering 11 million lives lost every year around the world, even without counting the millions of deaths by viral sepsis due to COVID-19.

While sepsis causes enormous loss in high‑income countries, it disproportionately affects vulnerable populations such as young children in resource‑poor countries. Making sepsis a priority on the global, national, and facility levels requires the engagement of high‑level policymakers, representatives of health authorities, patient organizations, health care providers, science, industry, and civil society. We need to learn from each other by exchanging best practices from around the world.

This event aims to spread this message on a global scale and accelerate the fight against sepsis. Following the scientific symposium and the best practices panel, we will celebrate the achievements of the past 10 years, present the Global Sepsis Awards, and conclude this unique World Sepsis Day event with a fundraising dinner, featuring international artists who share our commitment to the vision of “A World Free of Sepsis”. Please come and join us on-site or virtually.