Shevin T. Jacob, MD, MPH
Technical Lead - Severe Illness and Board Director 
Kampala, Uganda

Dr Shevin Jacob is an infectious diseases physician who obtained his Doctorate of Medicine at Oregon Health & Sciences University and a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed post-graduate training in internal medicine at the University of Virginia and infectious diseases at the University of Washington (UW). In 2017, he shifted his academic home from UW to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine where he is currently Senior Clinical Lecturer in Sepsis Research; he maintains an affiliate Assistant Professor appointment at UW.

Since 2006, Dr Jacob has been conducting research aimed to improve the management and outcomes of patients hospitalized with life-threatening infections in resource-constrained settings, with a primary focus on adult sepsis in Uganda where he currently lives. He currently co-directs the African Research Collaboration on Sepsis (ARCS), a consortium comprising collaborators across 10 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and a portfolio that spans the research spectrum from observational studies to clinical trials, health economics to social science, clinical management, quality improvement and evidence to policy. Since 2009, he has served as a consultant to the WHO as part of various working groups to improve the clinical management of severe illnesses in resource-constrained settings and in support of the response to viral hemorrhagic fever outbreaks in West, Central and East Africa. He is also co-Founder and on the Board of Directors for Walimu, a Ugandan non-government organization and close collaborator of the IMAI Alliance, and is the Secretary General for the African Sepsis Alliance, a regional alliance of the Global Sepsis Alliance.