Advocacy for the inclusion of IPC in Australian CDC
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the crucial leadership role of IPC professionals in outbreak response, emphasising their importance in patient care, outbreak management, quarantine enforcement, and vaccine administration. It has also exposed a critical gap in the integration of infectious disease control between community and healthcare settings.
While the formation of the Australian CDC is vital for the country’s public health system, the absence of formal IPC inclusion in its proposed structure will only reinforce this significant disconnect between settings, severely hindering system responsiveness.