In this special episode, Martin Kiernan talks to the ICPIC 2021 Conference organisers, Profs Didier Pittet and Stephan Harbarth about the upcoming meeting to be held in Geneva. With over 400 delegates attending in person from all over Europe and further afield, this will be the first major meeting to have a significant face-to-face element since the onset of the COVID pandemic.
We discuss COVID safety, programme highlights and whether hybrid design will be the future of conferences. Details of the conference and the programme can be found here <a href='https://conference.icpic.com/'>https://conference.icpic.com/</a>
We hope to bring a few daily highlights during the meeting, so watch out for special episodes.

Publish or we are all damned: The effect of COVID on journal publications with John McConnell of the Lancet

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