Dr. Jean-Jacques Muyembe is a renowned microbiologist and the Director-General of the Democratic Republic of the Congo National Institute for Biomedical Research, as well as a Professor of Microbiology at Kinshasa University Medical School. He is also an adviser to the WHO’s International Health Regulations Emergency Committee regarding Ebola. He was part of the original research team at Yambuku Catholic Mission that investigated the first outbreak of Ebola virus disease and later worked on the WHO team that implemented detection and control measures in the first documented urban outbreak of Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo.
