How often do you think about your hands and the germs that are on them? Carmela Mascio thinks about it all the time. Her passionate presentation includes a participatory demonstration of proper hand-hygiene technique, reveals the significant limitations of current hand-hygiene methods, the landscape of hospital-acquired infections, and a call to action to reject the status quo and prioritize innovation in hand hygiene.

Carmela Mascio is an infectious disease microbiologist with a passion for taking on “unsolvable” problems and a talent for working in “white space” innovation – problem spaces that have no template for success and require radically new ways of thinking.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx