ICTalk: Infection Control Today Podcast

About ICTalk: Infection Control Today Podcast

ICTalk: Infection Control Today Podcast is a podcast that dives into the latest trends, challenges, and solutions in infection prevention and control. This podcast delivers expert insights, real-world strategies, and actionable advice, covering topics relevant to health care professionals at every level—from C-suite executives to infection preventionists, sterile processing, environmental hygiene staff, and more. Join us for conversations with leading infection preventionists, industry experts, and thought leaders as we explore how to create safer environments, improve outcomes, and navigate the evolving landscape of infection control.

Publisher

ICTalk: Infection Control Today Podcast

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Jan 2025

Latest episode

23 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

29 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   23 Sept 2026

   29: The IFU Problem: Is Sterile Processing Information Becoming Unmanageable?

   Sterile processing professionals face constant interruptions, cognitive overload, increasingly complex devices, and hundreds of IFUs. Randalyn Harreld, CRCST, FHSPA, explains why health care organizations must address the human factors that affect SPD performance rather than expecting frontline professionals to simply absorb ever-increasing complexity.

2. 

   9 Sept 2026

   28: What Does the Cyclospora Outbreak Reveal About Public Health Surveillance? An Expert Discusses With ICT

   Brian C. Castrucci, DrPH, president and CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation, discusses what the current Cyclospora outbreak reveals about weaknesses in the nation's public health infrastructure, why speed and capacity disappear when funding declines, and how public health leaders can begin rebuilding trust through clearer, more empathetic communication.

3. 

   30 Jul 2026

   27: Lead Aprons May Represent an Overlooked Infection Prevention Blind Spot

   Although lead aprons and thyroid collars are routinely worn in operating rooms, catheterization laboratories, interventional radiology suites, and emergency departments to protect clinicians from radiation exposure, panelists from this Infection Control Today and Diagnostic Imaging roundtable said these garments often fall outside formal cleaning and disinfection protocols.

Who has been a guest on ICTalk: Infection Control Today Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Arlene Bush
• Cariane Morales Matos
• Veteran infection preventionists
• Danielle Rankin
• Tom Frieden

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 16 / 100

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Quality

32

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

0

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Books guests

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