Dr Ermira Tartari Bonnici

Dr Ermira Tartari Bonnici

Dr Ermira Tartari Bonnici

  B.Sc. (Hons)(Melit.),M.Sc. HSM(Melit.),Ph.D. Global Health (Geneva)

Lecturer

Room 70
Nursing
Faculty of Health Sciences
Msida
  +356 2340 1168
Dr. Ermira Tartari Bonnici is a Lecturer at the Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta. She graduated with a B.Sc. in Nursing (Hons.) an M.Sc. in Health Services Management from the University of Malta, and PhD in Global Health from University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Dr. Tartari Bonnici teaches in the area of infection prevention and control, healthcare-associated infections and patient safety to undergraduate nursing students, to qualified healthcare professionals in an online bachelor's degree programme, and to students on the Masters programmes within the Faculty of Health Sciences. She supervises dissertations at undergraduate and post-graduate level.

She has been involved in international projects on prevention and control of healthcare associated infections. She was appointed international coordinator within the Department of Nursing in 2021.

Dr. Tartari Bonnici is an editorial board member for the Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control Journal and a peer reviewer for various academic journals in her field of work.
  • Healthcare-associated infections
  • Infection prevention and control
  • Education and infection control
  • Patient safety
  • Digital health and social media
  • Research methods

ABBAS, M., GOTO, M., TARTARI, E., PERENCHEVIC, E. and PITTET, D., 2021. Revisiting the evidence for physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection. Lancet, 398(10301), pp. 661-663.

ALLEGRANZI, B., TARTARI, E. and PITTET, D., 2021. “Seconds save lives – clean your hands”: the 5 May 2021 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign. The Journal of hospital infection; J Hosp Infect, 111, pp. 1-3.

ALLEGRANZI, B., TARTARI, E. and PITTET, D., 2021. "Seconds save lives-clean your hands": the 5 May 2021 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign. Antimicrobial resistance & infection control; Antimicrob Resist Infect Control, 10(1), pp. 55-55.

ALLEGRANZI, B., TARTARI, E. and PITTET, D., 2021. “Seconds save lives – clean your hands”: the 5 May 2021 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign. American Journal of Infection Control; Am J Infect Control, 49(5), pp. 533-535.

LOTFINEJAD, N., PETERS, A., TARTARI, E., FANKHAUSER-RODRIGUEZ, C., PIRES, D. and PITTET, D., 2021. Hand hygiene in health care: 20 years of ongoing advances and perspectives. The Lancet infectious diseases; Lancet Infect Dis, 21(8), pp. 209-221.

MARTISCHANG, R., TARTARI, E., KILPATRICK, C., MACKENZIE, G., CARTER, V., CASTRO-SANCHEZ, E., VOSS, A. and PITTET, D., 2021. Enhancing engagement beyond the conference walls: analysis of Twitter use at #ICPIC2019 infection prevention and control conference. Antimicrobial resistance & infection control; Antimicrob Resist Infect Control, 10(1), pp. 20-20.

PIRES, D., GAYET-AGERON, A., GUITART, C., ROBERT, Y., FANKHAUSER, C., TARTARI, E., PETERS, A., TYMURKAYNAK, F., FOURQUIER, S., SOULE, H., BEUCHAT, R., BELLISSIMO-RODRIGUES, F., MARTIN, Y., ZINGG, W. and PITTET, D., 2021. Effect of Wearing a Novel Electronic Wearable Device on Hand Hygiene Compliance Among Health Care Workers: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA network open; JAMA Netw Open, 4(2), pp. e2035331-e2035331.

TARTARI, E., TOMCZYK, S., PIRES, D., ZAYED, B., REHSE, A.C., KARIYO, P., STEMPLIUK, V., ZINGG, W., PITTET, D. and ALLEGRANZI, B., 2021. Implementation of the infection prevention and control core components at the national level: a global situational analysis. Journal of Hospital Infection, 108, pp. 94-103.

MARTISCHANG, R., PETERS, A., GUITART, C., TARTARI, E. and PITTET, D., 2020. Promises and limitations of a digitalized infection control program. Journal of advanced nursing; J Adv Nurs, .

TARTARI, E., HOPMAN, J., ALLEGRANZI, B., GAO, B., WIDMER, A., CHENG, V.C., WONG, S.C., MARIMUTHU, K., OGUNSOLA, F. and VOSS, A., 2020. Perceived challenges of COVID-19 infection prevention and control preparedness: A multinational survey. Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance, .

TARTARI, E., SARIS, K., KENTERS, N., MARIMUTHU, K., WIDMER, A., COLLIGNON, P., CHENG, V.C.C., WONG, S.C., GOTTLIEB, T., TAMBYAH, P.A., PERENCEVICH, E., ALLEGRANZI, B., DRAMOWSKI, A., EDMOND, M.B. and VOSS, A., 2020. Not sick enough to worry? "Influenza-like" symptoms and work-related behavior among healthcare workers and other professionals: Results of a global survey. PloS one, 15(5), pp. e0232168-e0232168.

KENTERS, N., KIERNAN, M., CHOWDHARY, A., DENNING, D.W., PEMÁN, J., SARIS, K., SCHELENZ, S., TARTARI, E., WIDMER, A., MEIS, J.F. and VOSS, A., 2019. Control of Candida auris in healthcare institutions: Outcome of an International Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy expert meeting. International journal of antimicrobial agents; Int J Antimicrob Agents, 54(4), pp. 400-406.

LOFTUS, M.J., GUITART, C., TARTARI, E., STEWARDSON, A.J., AMER, F., BELLISSIMO-RODRIGUES, F., LEE, Y.F., MEHTAR, S., SITHOLE, B.L. and PITTET, D., 2019. Hand hygiene in low-and middle-income countries. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 86, pp. 25-30.

PETERS, A., TARTARI, E., MAI, S.H.C., ALLEGRANZI, B. and PITTET, D., 2019. 2019 WHO hand hygiene campaign and global survey: clean care for all—it's in your hands. The Lancet infectious diseases; Lancet Infect Dis, 19(5), pp. 463-464.

TARTARI, E., MUTHUKUMARAN, P., PETERS, A., ALLEGRANZI, B. and PITTET, D., 2019. Monitoring your institution: the WHO hand hygiene self-assessment framework-is it worth it? Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 25(8), pp. 925-928.

TARTARI, E., FANKHAUSER, C., MASSON-ROY, S., MÁRQUEZ-VILLARREAL, H., FERNÁNDEZ MORENO, I., RODRIGUEZ NAVAS, M.L., SARABIA, O., BELLISSIMO-RODRIGUES, F., HERNÁNDEZ-DE MEZERVILLE, M., FONG LEE, Y., AELAMI, M.H., MEHTAR, S., AGOSTINHO, A., CAMILLERI, L., ALLEGRANZI, B., PIRES, D. and PITTET, D., 2019. Train-the-trainers in hand hygiene : a standardized approach to guide education in infection prevention and control. BMC.

TARTARI, E., FANKHAUSER, C., PETERS, A., SITHOLE, B.L., TIMURKAYNAK, F., MASSON-ROY, S., ALLEGRANZI, B., PIRES, D. and PITTET, D., 2019. Scenario-based simulation training for the WHO hand hygiene self-assessment framework. Antimicrobial resistance & infection control; Antimicrob Resist Infect Control, 8(1), pp. 58-58.

KILPATRICK, C., TARTARI, E., GAYET-AGERON, A., STORR, J., TOMCZYK, S., ALLEGRANZI, B. and PITTET, D., 2018. Global hand hygiene improvement progress: two surveys using the WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework. Journal of Hospital Infection, 100(2), pp. 202-206.

PITTET, D., PETERS, A. and TARTARI, E., 2018. Enterococcus faecium tolerance to isopropanol: from good science to misinformation. The Lancet infectious diseases; Lancet Infect Dis, 18(10), pp. 1065-1066.

TARTARI, E., PIRES, D. and PITTET, D., 2018. ‘One size does not fit all’–customizing hand hygiene agents, messages, and interventions, .

WANG, J., LIU, F., TARTARI, E., HUANG, J., HARBARTH, S., PITTET, D. and ZINGG, W., 2018. The prevalence of healthcare-associated infections in mainland China: a systematic review and meta-analysis. infection control & hospital epidemiology, 39(6), pp. 701-709.

ABBAS, M., TARTARI, E., ALLEGRANZI, B., PITTET, D. and HARBARTH, S., 2017. The effect of participating in a surgical site infection (SSI) surveillance network on the time trend of SSI rates: a systematic review. infection control & hospital epidemiology, 38(11), pp. 1364-1366.

PIRES, D., DE KRAKER, M.,ELIZABETH ADRIANA, TARTARI, E., ABBAS, M. and PITTET, D., 2017. ‘Fight Antibiotic Resistance—It’s in Your Hands’: Call From the World Health Organization for 5th May 2017. Clinical infectious diseases, 64(12), pp. 1780-1783.

PIRES, D., TARTARI, E., BELLISSIMO-RODRIGUES, F. and PITTET, D., 2017. Why language matters: a tour through hand hygiene literature. Antimicrobial resistance & infection control; Antimicrob Resist Infect Control, 6(1), pp. 65-65.

TARTARI, E., PIRES, D. and PITTET, D., 2017. Clean Your Hands 5th May 2017: 'Fight antibiotic resistance - it's in your hands'. Antimicrobial resistance & infection control; Antimicrob Resist Infect Control, 6(1), pp. 39-39.

TARTARI, E., PIRES, D. and PITTET, D., 2017. Fighting antibiotic resistance is in your hands: May 5, 2017. The Lancet infectious diseases; Lancet Infect Dis, 17(5), pp. 475-475.

TARTARI, E., PIRES, D., BELLISSIMO-RODRIGUES, F., DE KRAKER, M., BORZYKOWSKI, T., ALLEGRANZI, B. and PITTET, D., PROFESSOR, 2016. The global hand-sanitizing relay: promoting hand hygiene through innovation. The Journal of hospital infection; J Hosp Infect, 95(2), pp. 189-193.

  • HSM5120 - Application of Tools and Practices to Enhance Patient Safety and to Manage Clinical Risk in Context
  • MID1024 - Infection Prevention and Control in Midwifery Clinical Practice
  • NUR0228 - Aspects of Care Delivery
  • NUR1135 - Introduction to applied biomedical sciences
  • NUR1136 - Foundations of healthcare practice
  • NUR1221 - Use of Information Technology in Health Care
  • NUR2217 - Individualised Nursing Care 1
  • NUR3177 - Education in Nursing Practice
  • NUR3198 - Individualised Nursing Care 2
  • NUR5129 - Skin and Wound Care
  • NUR5134 - Infection Prevention and Control for Healthcare Facilities
  • NUR5135 - Driving Improvement in Infection Prevention and Control
  • NUR5145 - Antimicrobial Stewardship: Managing Antibiotics Resistance
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