Advancing safer healthcare through science, preparedness and collaboration.
Infection prevention and control remain central to safe care and public-health resilience. This two-day conference brings together clinicians, infection preventionists, researchers, laboratory specialists and policymakers to examine emerging threats, strengthen outbreak readiness and translate innovation into safer practice.
The scientific programme is designed around the realities facing modern healthcare systems: emerging pathogens, antimicrobial resistance, healthcare-associated infections, mass gatherings, accreditation requirements, diagnostic innovation and the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence.
The programme combines global infection-prevention and control priorities with the Kingdom's public-health context, including preparedness for Hajj and Umrah mass gatherings.
To be a leading scientific platform advancing safer healthcare through excellence in infection prevention, preparedness, collaboration and innovation.
To connect healthcare and public-health professionals, researchers, laboratories and policymakers to exchange knowledge, strengthen preparedness, advance innovation and translate evidence into effective infection-prevention practice.
Across two scientific days, with the topics each session explores.
Tuberculosis, Candida auris, MERS-CoV and regional epidemiology.
Sepsis guidance, occupational policy, HIV and hepatitis.
Environmental controls, care beyond hospitals and predictive tools.
Hajj and Umrah protection, pandemic lessons and readiness.
HAI monitoring, diagnostics and antimicrobial-resistance strategy.
Regulatory readiness, CBAHI standards and CBIC updates.
Cutting-edge insights from regional and international experts, and a network of professionals shaping the future of infection control.
Stronger surveillance competency for CAUTI, VAE and multidrug-resistant organisms.
Updated knowledge of emerging infections and Candida auris containment.
Improved adoption of rapid and next-generation diagnostics.
More structured institutional outbreak-response mechanisms.
Better alignment with CBAHI and CBIC-related expectations.
A practical framework for AI-enabled risk assessment.
More robust infection-prevention strategies for mass gatherings.
Stronger collaboration across clinical, laboratory and public-health disciplines.
The programme is written for the people who carry infection prevention in hospitals, laboratories and public-health bodies.
IPC practitioners, coordinators and department heads.
Clinicians and registered nurses across acute and long-term care.
Specialists working on surveillance, outbreaks and mass gatherings.
Laboratory scientists and diagnostics professionals.
Healthcare quality leaders preparing for CBAHI and CBIC standards.
Teams applying analytics and AI to surveillance and risk.
Message to be added
The welcome message from the conference chair will appear here, introducing the scientific vision of GIPCC 2026 and the role of King Saud Medical City in advancing infection prevention across the Kingdom.
Committee members are announced as they are confirmed.
Conference Chair
Scientific Committee Chair
Organising Committee Chair
Scientific Committee
Organising Committee
Scientific Committee
Organising Committee
Conference Secretariat
