He was instrumental in founding the International Federation for Infection Control (IFIC) in association with the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1987.
[2] Graham Ayliffe was born in Hambrook, Gloucestershire, England and educated at Queen Elizabeth's Hospital School in Bristol.
He served for three years in the Royal Navy as a medical assistant/laboratory technician and then went on to study Medicine at Bristol University.
[5][6] The technique was soon adopted by hospitals throughout the UK and was endorsed by the World Health Organization in 2009 and is similar to German standard DIN EN 1500 (hygienic hand disinfection).
[4] He authored and co-authored numerous books and academic papers including: Ayliffe married Janet Lloyd in 1963 and they had two children.