Michael Jacobs, MD, Dr.,Chief of Infection, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
He is Consultant in Infectious Diseases at the Royal Free Hospital in London. He trained at Oxford and London universities before completing a PhD in Virology. He is interested in all aspects of clinical infectious diseases with a special interest in serious viral infections. He is director of the Royal Free High Level Isolation Unit and is a member of the UK Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens. He worked at the centre of the UK response to the West Africa Ebola outbreak, and served on several national and international Ebola advisory committees. He is NHS England Programme Director for High Consequence Infectious Diseases