The Oregon Chapter of SCCM is partnering with Sepsis Forum: Bench, Bedside, Beyond, an international collaborative focusing on improving outcomes in sepsis, to sponsor a two-day conference bringing together critical care clinicians from across the region. This multidisciplinary event will feature speakers from a variety of specialties and backgrounds covering the rich clinical makeup of the ICU. Sepsis Forum is curating a specific block featuring intensivists, data scientists, and patients to broaden our understanding of this complex clinical phenomenon.

Connect with colleagues, expand your knowledge, and discover new approaches to improving outcomes for critically ill patients. Trainees are invited to present abstracts for case reports, original research, or quality improvement projects.

September 30, 2026 | 14h CEST | Free Livestream on YouTube

Sepsis remains a major global health challenge, but the opportunities and challenges in preventing, recognizing, and managing sepsis vary considerably across healthcare systems and resource settings.

On September 30, 2026, the Global Sepsis Alliance invites you to a special World Sepsis Congress Satellite Session bringing together leaders from regional sepsis alliances and experts from around the world to share practical experiences and approaches to improving sepsis care.

The session will explore early detection, clinical management, quality improvement, policy, and community-based approaches across different regions and healthcare settings, from resource-constrained health systems in Africa to advances in Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Eastern Mediterranean, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

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Program

• Welcome and Opening Remarks
  Dr. Mariam Jashi, CEO, Global Sepsis Alliance, Georgia

• Building Early-Detection Capacity in Resource-Constrained African Health Systems
  Prof. Andrew Argent, Chair, African Sepsis Alliance, South Africa

• From Guideline to Bedside: European Advances in Sepsis Management
  Prof. Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis, Chair, European Sepsis Alliance, Greece

• Scaling Sepsis Quality Improvement Across the Asia-Pacific Region
  Prof. Simon Finfer, Director, Asia Pacific Sepsis Alliance, Australia

• A Regional Call to Action: Reforming Sepsis Policy to Prioritize Patient Survival in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
  Dr. Abdulelah Alhawsawi, Chair, Eastern Mediterranean Sepsis Alliance, Saudi Arabia

• Community and Clinical Innovations in Latin American Sepsis Care
  Prof. Rafael Moraes, President, Latin American Institute of Sepsis, Brazil

• Early Sepsis Recognition: Saving Lives Through Timely Intervention
  Dr. Sandeep Maharaj, CEO, Caribbean Sepsis and AMR Alliance, Trinidad and Tobago

• Live Q&A via the YouTube Chat
  Moderated by Christina A. Cole, Sepsis Survivor, Author, Patient Advocate & Healthcare Innovator, United States

• Closing Remarks
  Dr. Mariam Jashi, CEO, Global Sepsis Alliance, Georgia

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We thank bioMérieux for sponsoring this WSC Satellite Session.

Sponsors do not influence the choice of speakers or the content of our events in any way.

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This satellite session provides an opportunity to hear directly from leaders working across different regions and healthcare contexts. By sharing practical experiences, innovations, and approaches, the session aims to strengthen the global exchange of knowledge on early detection and clinical management of sepsis.

Whether you work in clinical care, research, policy, advocacy, or public health, this session offers an opportunity to learn from colleagues working to improve sepsis outcomes in diverse settings.

This session is free to attend and will be livestreamed on YouTube.

Invest Now – Save Lives by 2030.

Update Sep 15: The event has concluded, thank you for joining. You can rewatch it above or here on YouTube, incl. chapter markers so you can jump directly to the speaker you are most interested in.

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We are now live from Dublin with “Making sepsis a European health policy priority: from national leadership to European action”. Please join us via the free YouTube livestream, including engaging with our amazing speakers and panelists via the YouTube chat.

The event recording will be available at the same URL immediately after the livestream has concluded.

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The event is an Associated Event of the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It is co-hosted by the Global Sepsis Alliance and the Irish Sepsis Alliance.

This afternoon conference will bring together top leaders of the European academic and clinical space alongside high-level representatives of national and European institutions, including the European Commission, WHO Europe, and the Irish government. Confirmed speakers include Dr. Mariam Jashi, CEO of the Global Sepsis Alliance and former Deputy Minister of Health of Georgia; ESA Chair Prof. Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis; Prof. Mary Horgan, Chief Medical Officer of Ireland; Dr. Gundo Weiler, Head of WHO Athens Quality of Care and Patient Safety Office; Inmaculada Navarro-Pérez from DG HERA; and the National Sepsis Coordinator for Belgium, Tom Vanacker.. Patient advocates, sepsis survivors, and representatives of countries with established national sepsis strategies — including Ireland, France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Sweden — will contribute to dedicated panels.

The conference will close with a high-level political session and the formal presentation of policy recommendations. The central objective of the Dublin conference is to generate a formal, collective call on the European Commission and Council to develop a coordinated European framework for sepsis — building on the ESA's Call to Action launched at the European Parliament in March 2025, subsequently endorsed by WHO Europe Regional Director Dr. Hans Kluge, and renewed at the 9th ESA Annual Meeting in Brussels in March 2026 with the support of MEPs Vytenis Andriukaitis and Sirpa Pietikäinen.

The Dublin conference is the result of months of sustained advocacy in Ireland. Following the tragic loss of her sister-in-law Sarah to sepsis, Irish Sepsis Alliance’s advocate Sinéad O'Reilly — together with Prof. Steve Kerrigan of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and Global Sepsis Alliance Board member Ciaran Staunton of END SEPSIS — brought Petition No. P00070/25 before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Petitions, calling on the Irish Government to place sepsis on the agenda of its EU Council Presidency. The Department of Health's invitation to organise this Associated Event is the direct outcome of those activities and of the correspondence of ESA with the Ministry of Health.

Ireland assumed the Presidency of the Council of the European Union on 1 July 2026, inheriting a Presidency trio with Lithuania and Greece — the countries that will hold the chair in 2027. This event is intended to be one step in the strategic engagement with the Presidency trio.

Whether you are joining us in Dublin or online, we hope you will be part of this important step in the European sepsis advocacy journey. For media enquiries, please contact: Simone Mancini, Director, European Sepsis Alliance — Simone.Mancini@global-sepsis-alliance.org.

On World Sepsis Day 2026, the Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA) is taking an important step toward strengthening sepsis care at the hospital level with the launch of the development and international validation phase of the GSA Sepsis Accreditation Program.

The new initiative aims to help hospitals translate evidence and clinical recommendations into reliable, measurable systems for sepsis prevention, early recognition, treatment, recovery, and continuous improvement.

Dr. Soliman Fakeeh Hospital–Jeddah (DSFH-J), Saudi Arabia, has joined the initiative as a Founding Pilot Partner. Working alongside GSA, DSFH-J will help test and refine the proposed standards and assessment methodology in a real-world hospital environment.

The program is being developed with global applicability in mind, with additional Founding Pilot Partners expected to join from different healthcare systems and regions. The final accreditation framework will be shaped through this international validation process, with formal international launch targeted for Q1 2027.

This initiative reflects the GSA’s commitment to moving beyond awareness and clinical recommendations toward stronger systems, measurable quality improvement, and better outcomes for people affected by sepsis.

Global Standards. Local Improvement. Better Outcomes. Lives Saved.

World Sepsis Day is here.

Today, September 13, people and organizations around the world are coming together to raise awareness of sepsis — and to make a clear call for action:

Invest in Sepsis. Save Lives.

Sepsis affects millions of people every year and is associated with approximately one in five deaths worldwide. Yet it remains under-recognized, under-prioritized, and underfunded.

We know what can save lives.

We can prevent infections. We can recognize sepsis earlier. We can strengthen health systems. We can support and train healthcare professionals. We can develop better diagnostics and treatments. And we can ensure people everywhere have access to timely, quality sepsis care.

But none of this happens without investment.

This World Sepsis Day, we are calling on governments, healthcare systems, researchers, funders, industry, healthcare professionals, communities, and individuals to invest in the actions that can prevent sepsis, improve care, and save lives.

Our World Sepsis Day 2026 campaign provides information, resources, practical ideas, and ways to get involved.

Learn why investment in sepsis matters and how we can turn awareness into action — from prevention and early recognition to healthcare professionals, research and innovation, stronger health systems, people and communities, and preparedness.

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Download Free World Sepsis Day Resources

Want to help spread the message?

Our World Sepsis Day Toolkit Section contains free posters, infographics, social media graphics, fact sheets, videos, quizzes, photo boards, event materials, and more in several languages.

Use them at your workplace, in your community, at an event, on your website, or across your social media channels.

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Watch the 2026 Global Webinar

On September 9, the Global Sepsis Alliance brought together global and regional sepsis leaders, survivors, and families for our 2026 World Sepsis Day Global Webinar: Invest in Sepsis – Save Lives.

The webinar explored why investment in sepsis is urgently needed and what governments, health systems, researchers, funders, healthcare professionals, and communities can do to turn investment into lives saved.

If you missed it, you can watch the recording online.

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Share World Sepsis Day on Social Media

One of the easiest ways to take action today is to share information about sepsis with your network.

Follow World Sepsis Day on Instagram, X, Facebook, and TikTok, and share our posts with your own networks.

You can also use our ready-made social media materials and sample posts to help spread the message:

Invest in Sepsis. Save Lives.

Use #WorldSepsisDay and help make sepsis visible around the world.

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Sample Social Media Posts

• Invest in Sepsis. Save Lives.
  Sepsis affects millions of people every year and is associated with approximately 1 in 5 deaths worldwide. We know what can save lives. This #WorldSepsisDay, join the call to #InvestInSepsis. #SaveLives #SepsisAwareness

• September 13 is #WorldSepsisDay. Sepsis can affect anyone, anywhere. Investing in prevention, early recognition, quality care, healthcare professionals, research, innovation, and stronger health systems can help save lives. Invest in Sepsis. Save Lives. #Sepsis

• Sepsis does not wait. Neither should we. Early recognition and timely, quality care can save lives. This #WorldSepsisDay, help raise awareness and support greater investment in sepsis prevention, care, research, and health systems. #InvestInSepsis #SaveLives

• Preventing sepsis starts before the emergency. Vaccination, infection prevention and control, clean care, and access to appropriate healthcare can help prevent infections that may lead to sepsis. This #WorldSepsisDay, Invest in Sepsis. Save Lives. #SepsisAwareness

• Healthcare professionals are essential to saving lives from sepsis. Investing in education, training, resources, safe working environments, and quality care strengthens our ability to recognize and treat sepsis in time. #WorldSepsisDay #InvestInSepsis #SaveLives

• Investment in sepsis is investment in stronger health systems. From prevention and early recognition to diagnostics, treatment, rehabilitation, research, and innovation — action at every level can help save lives. #WorldSepsisDay #InvestInSepsis

• Behind every sepsis statistic is a person. A patient. A family. A survivor. A life changed forever. This #WorldSepsisDay, let’s turn awareness into action and make sure sepsis gets the investment it deserves. Invest in Sepsis. Save Lives. #SepsisAwareness

• I’m participating in #WorldSepsisDay! This year’s message is simple: Invest in Sepsis. Save Lives. I’m helping raise awareness and call for greater investment in prevention, early recognition, quality care, research, and stronger health systems. What are you doing?

• Want to help this #WorldSepsisDay? Download free infographics, social media materials, videos, posters, and more from the World Sepsis Day Toolkit. Share them with your network and help spread the message: Invest in Sepsis. Save Lives. #SepsisAwareness

• World Sepsis Day is September 13. Join millions of people around the world in raising awareness of sepsis and calling for action. Share reliable information. Educate your community. Support survivors and families. And help make the case for investment in sepsis. #WorldSepsisDay

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Sign the World Sepsis Declaration

Show your support for global action against sepsis by signing the World Sepsis Declaration.

Your signature adds your voice to the global call for greater action on sepsis prevention, recognition, treatment, research, and health systems.

Every voice helps raise awareness. Every action helps build momentum. Every investment can help save lives.

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Join World Sepsis Day Activities Around the World

World Sepsis Day is a global movement, and activities continue in communities, hospitals, organizations, and institutions around the world.

On Tuesday, September 15, we will continue the World Sepsis Day conversation with a special event in Dublin, Ireland.

Whether you are organizing an event, sharing information online, supporting a survivor or family member, educating your community, engaging policymakers, or simply talking to someone you know about sepsis, you can be part of the movement.

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Share Our Sepsis Explained Video

Help the people around you understand sepsis.

Our 3-minute video explains what sepsis is, how to recognize it, and why acting quickly matters. It is an easy way to share reliable information with your family, friends, colleagues, and community — and help more people recognize sepsis when it happens.

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Donate to World Sepsis Day

We are a small non-profit charity trying to make the world a better place – every cent helps and will be put to good use.

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Behind Every Statistic Is a Person

Every number has a story.

A person who survived sepsis.

A family who lost someone they loved.

A healthcare professional who fought to save a life.

Sepsis can change lives in a matter of hours, and its effects can last for months or years.

This World Sepsis Day, we stand with survivors, families, healthcare professionals, and everyone working to prevent avoidable suffering and death from sepsis.

Invest in Sepsis. Save Lives.

Sepsis does not wait.

But lives can be saved.

By investing in prevention.
By investing in people.
By investing in early recognition and quality care.
By investing in research and innovation.
By investing in stronger health systems.

Today, September 13, join the global movement.

Raise awareness. Take action. Share the message. Make the case for investment.

Invest in Sepsis. Save Lives.

Thank you for standing with us and for everything you do to help make a world free of sepsis.

Follow Us on Social Media

Stay connected with the global World Sepsis Day campaign. Follow World Sepsis Day on Instagram, X, TikTok, and Facebook, and share our posts with your own networks.

Every share helps bring sepsis into the conversation and makes the call for action louder.

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Post to Your Social Media

Your voice can help make sepsis visible – and help drive investment in saving lives.

On World Sepsis Day, share the “Invest in Sepsis – Save Lives.” message with your friends, family, colleagues, community, and professional networks.

You can find ready-to-use social media graphics, infographics, videos, and other materials in our World Sepsis Day Toolkit Section. Choose a resource, copy one of the sample posts below, and share it on your social media channel.

Feel free to adapt the messages to your own country, organization, profession, or personal experience. Adding a photo from your World Sepsis Day activity can make your post even more engaging.

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Sample Social Media Posts

• Invest in Sepsis. Save Lives.
  Sepsis affects millions of people every year and is associated with approximately 1 in 5 deaths worldwide. We know what can save lives. This #WorldSepsisDay, join the call to #InvestInSepsis. #SaveLives #SepsisAwareness

• September 13 is #WorldSepsisDay. Sepsis can affect anyone, anywhere. Investing in prevention, early recognition, quality care, healthcare professionals, research, innovation, and stronger health systems can help save lives. Invest in Sepsis. Save Lives. #Sepsis

• Sepsis does not wait. Neither should we. Early recognition and timely, quality care can save lives. This #WorldSepsisDay, help raise awareness and support greater investment in sepsis prevention, care, research, and health systems. #InvestInSepsis #SaveLives

• Preventing sepsis starts before the emergency. Vaccination, infection prevention and control, clean care, and access to appropriate healthcare can help prevent infections that may lead to sepsis. This #WorldSepsisDay, Invest in Sepsis. Save Lives. #SepsisAwareness

• Healthcare professionals are essential to saving lives from sepsis. Investing in education, training, resources, safe working environments, and quality care strengthens our ability to recognize and treat sepsis in time. #WorldSepsisDay #InvestInSepsis #SaveLives

• Investment in sepsis is investment in stronger health systems. From prevention and early recognition to diagnostics, treatment, rehabilitation, research, and innovation — action at every level can help save lives. #WorldSepsisDay #InvestInSepsis

• Behind every sepsis statistic is a person. A patient. A family. A survivor. A life changed forever. This #WorldSepsisDay, let’s turn awareness into action and make sure sepsis gets the investment it deserves. Invest in Sepsis. Save Lives. #SepsisAwareness

• I’m participating in #WorldSepsisDay! This year’s message is simple: Invest in Sepsis. Save Lives. I’m helping raise awareness and call for greater investment in prevention, early recognition, quality care, research, and stronger health systems. What are you doing?

• Want to help this #WorldSepsisDay? Download free infographics, social media materials, videos, posters, and more from the World Sepsis Day Toolkit. Share them with your network and help spread the message: Invest in Sepsis. Save Lives. #SepsisAwareness

• World Sepsis Day is September 13. Join millions of people around the world in raising awareness of sepsis and calling for action. Share reliable information. Educate your community. Support survivors and families. And help make the case for investment in sepsis. #WorldSepsisDay

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Share Your World Sepsis Day Activities

Are you organizing an event, lighting a building, hosting an educational activity, sharing a survivor story, or doing something else for World Sepsis Day?

Share it with us and tag World Sepsis Day. We want to see how people and organizations around the world are turning awareness into action.

Use the official hashtag:

• #WorldSepsisDay

You can also use:

• #SepsisAwareness
  #InvestInSepsis
  #2030GlobalSepsisAgenda
  #Sepsis
  #StopSepsis
  #SaveLives

To help create a strong global conversation, please use #WorldSepsisDay as the primary hashtag rather than creating variations such as #WorldSepsisDay2026 or #WSD26.

Find all our free social media materials in the World Sepsis Day Toolkit and start sharing today.

Update Sep 9: The webinar has concluded, thanks for joining. You can rewatch it above or here on YouTube, incl. chapter markers so you can jump directly to the speaker you are most interested in.

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We are now live with our 2026 World Sepsis Day Global Webinar “Invest in Sepsis – Save Lives”. Please join us via the free YouTube livestream, including engaging with our wonderful speakers via the YouTube chat.

The event recording will be available at the same URL immediately after the livestream has concluded.

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As part of the 2026 World Sepsis Day, the Global Sepsis Alliance invites the global sepsis community to join our Global Webinar, “Invest in Sepsis – Save Lives,” on September 9, 2026, at 14:00 CEST.

The webinar will bring together global and regional sepsis leaders, survivors, and families to highlight why investment in sepsis is urgently needed – and how targeted investment in awareness, prevention, care, research, and people can help save lives.

Under the 2026 World Sepsis Day theme Invest in Sepsis – Save Lives, the program will explore the investment case for sepsis from different regional perspectives, alongside powerful personal stories from sepsis survivors and families.

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PRogram

14:00 – Welcome and Introduction to the Global Theme and Global Webinar
Dr. Mariam Jashi, CEO, Global Sepsis Alliance, Georgia
Simone Mancini, Coordinator, Regional Sepsis Alliances, Global Sepsis Alliance, Italy

14:10 – Why Invest in Sepsis and Why Now
Prof. Niranjan “Tex” Kissoon, President, Global Sepsis Alliance, Canada

14:15 – Lieke’s Sepsis Story: From Unimaginable Loss to Life-Saving Awareness
Meran Bosgraaf, Lieke’s Father, The Netherlands

14:20 – “Through the Ashes”
Christina A. Cole, Sepsis Survivor, Author, Patient Advocate & Healthcare Innovator, United States

Sepsis Investment Cases by Region

14:25 – African Sepsis Alliance (ASA)
Prof. Andrew Argent, Chair, South Africa

European Sepsis Alliance (ESA)
Prof. Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis, Chair, Greece

Asia-Pacific Sepsis Alliance (APSA)
Prof. Simon Finfer, Director, Australia

Eastern Mediterranean Sepsis Alliance (EMSA)
Dr. Abdulelah Alhawsawi, Chair, Saudi Arabia

Caribbean Sepsis and AMR Alliance (CSA)
Dr. Sandeep Maharaj, CEO, Trinidad and Tobago

Latin American Sepsis Institute (LASI/ILAS)
Prof. Flavia Machado, Co-Founder, Brazil

14:50 – The Need for Investing in People
Marianne Haverkamp, Co-chair, Global Sepsis Survivor and Family Committee, Sepsis Survivor, Spain
Duncan Brown, Co-chair, Global Sepsis Survivor and Family Committee, Father of Kuan Brown, Australia

15:00 – The Way Forward in the Global Sepsis Response
Prof. Konrad Reinhart, Founding President, Global Sepsis Alliance and President, Sepsis Stiftung, Germany

15:10 – Moderated Discussion with the Audience
Simone Mancini, Coordinator, Regional Sepsis Alliances, Global Sepsis Alliance, Italy

15:25 – Closing Remarks
Dr. Mariam Jashi, CEO, Global Sepsis Alliance, Georgia
Prof. Niranjan “Tex” Kissoon, President, Global Sepsis Alliance, Canada

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Invest Now – Save Lives by 2030

Sepsis remains a major global health challenge, but progress is possible. Investing in sepsis means investing in the systems, people, knowledge, and solutions needed to prevent avoidable deaths and improve outcomes for patients and families around the world.

Join us now and be part of the global conversation.

Invest in Sepsis – Save Lives.

Clínica Medical Duarte, located in Cúcuta, Norte de Santander (Colombia), will hold "World Sepsis Day – 1st Update Symposium: advances, challenges, and strategies for its management" on September 11, 2026, in a hybrid format: on-site at the hospital's main auditorium and livestreamed free of charge, open to participants worldwide, with all sessions delivered in Spanish. It is the first symposium held in Norte de Santander devoted entirely to sepsis, will bring together invited speakers from across Colombia, and is conceived as an annual event with national reach.

The free, eight-hour program brings together twelve speakers around four themes:

• Early recognition and activation of the Sepsis Code

• Physiology-guided fluid resuscitation

• Sepsis in high-complexity populations and sources (sepsis following abortion, febrile neutropenia from children to adults, sepsis of unknown source, and cardiovascular septic shock)

• Prevention, covering antimicrobial stewardship programmes, control of antimicrobial resistance, and prevention of catheter-related bloodstream infections.

The symposium is open to physicians, nurses, clinical pharmacists, and health sciences students at no cost.

Its purpose is to reduce sepsis mortality through early detection and standardisation of care, in line with the Global Agenda for Sepsis 2030.

The symposium will also be available online through Microsoft Teams, allowing healthcare professionals to participate remotely.