Jean-Jacques Muyembe is Director-General of the Democratic Republic of the Congo National Institute for Biomedical Research, and 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 documents urban outbreak of Ebola in DRC.

Previously, Dr. Muyembe has worked at Institut Pasteur de Dakar and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.