Buyiswa Lizzie Sithole is a seasoned IPC Specialist and hand hygiene Compliance and Monitoring Officer who has worked for ICAN and WHO. She holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Infection (Cum-Laude). She is an IPC Trainer (Accredited by ICAN and Stellenbosch University). She was actively involved in the West Africa Ebola response in Sierra Leone and worked for World Health Organization as a Technical Advisor for IPC and supported the MOHS to roll out the National IPC Program. Under ICAN she rolled out the Hand hygiene trainings across Africa amongst other training programs. She is also actively involved in the training and mentoring HCWs on IPC practices. She has authored and co-authored various papers in the field of hand hygiene including co-authoring “Knowledge, attitudes, and practices for ECD in the National Rapid Deployable Isolation and Treatment Facility (RDTIF) in Sierra Leone. Lizzie has worked in Liberia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, South Sudan and Zimbabwe and has been part of IPC Trainings rolled out in Botswana, Cameroon, DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia and Nigeria and has vast knowledge in implementing IPC Programs in Low-middle income settings.