Why PHOs Should Prioritize Consistency Over Motivation
Some days, you wake up ready to take on the world. Your schedule is set, your training is going to make a difference, and senior management is fully behind you.
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Disease Prevention
Why It’s Time to End the COVID Cleaning Theatre
As the cruise industry prepared to restart after its pandemic pause, it launched into a full-scale sanitizing spree. The approach was understandable. Early research warned that SARS-CoV-2 could linger on…
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The Different Hats of a Public Health Officer
When people hear the title Public Health Officer (PHO), they often picture someone with a clipboard, checking food temperatures and monitoring handwashing practices. While compliance is certainly part of…
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Are Cruise Ship Outbreaks Truly Unavoidable?
They say the only certainties in life are death and taxes. But with 2024 making headlines as the worst year for cruise ship gastrointestinal outbreaks in…
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Common Hand Hygiene Myths
Modern myths endure as widely held beliefs that continue to be circulated and endorsed through frequent repetition, often in face of significant evidence to the contrary. In the age of…
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Do Crew Isolation Policies for AGE Need to Change?
The isolation of individuals infected with a communicable disease—our previous article “How Murphy’s Law Can Help Prevent Disease Outbreaks” addresses the terminology—is a critical component of illness prevention and…
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