Clean Hands. Clean Habits. Better Health.
Join Dr Lisa Ackerley in making hygiene accessible to all—at home, at work, and everywhere in between.
DR LISA ACKERLEY is an advocate for consumer education on hygiene and as The Hygiene Doctor provides expert advice to the media and PR campaign assistance for businesses with hygiene related products.
Passionate about hygiene as the foundation of health, as the Hygiene Doctor, Lisa’s ambition is to make hygiene simple, affordable, sustainable and available for everyone. Her aim is to help people understand why how and when to apply simple hygiene measures to help to reduce risks of infection.
About the Hygiene Doctor
As an independent spokesperson on public health and consumer hygiene issues, Dr Lisa has built up a wealth of knowledge, which she wants to share with you so that you can be in a position to protect yourself and your family. Take a look at her YouTube channel Kitchen Conversation where she chats about food safety issues with fellow Chartered EHP, Sterling Crew.
Lisa helps to untangle the facts from the myths, making hygiene understandable and accessible
Hygiene Doctoids
- Food poisoning is preventable through effective hygiene
- Around a million people suffer a foodborne illness in the UK every year
- One third of the population will suffer from Campylobacter in their lives
- Around 20,000 people receive hospital treatment due to foodborne illness
- There are around 500 deaths caused by foodborne illness
- The cost of foodborne illness to the UK economy is £1.5billion
- For every one person with a reported case of infectious intestinal disease there are 147 more cases in the community
Most infections are completely avoidable – but only if you know how! Colds, flu, food poisoning and even skin infections don’t occur randomly – they are usually transferred from one place to another, often via hands, but also from dirty cloths, dirty laundry and even the faithful family dog.
‐ Dr Lisa Ackerley
