Dr Jake Dunning, BSc (Hons) MBBS MRCP DIC PhD, is Consultant in Infectious Diseases at the National Infection Service, Public Health England (PHE). Deputy Director of the High Consequence Infectious Diseases Programme, NHS England, and Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases at the Royal Free Hospital. He is also an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Respiratory Infections Section of Respiratory Sciences at National Heart and Lung Institute, which is the academic partner in the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Respiratory Infections. Jake graduated with honours from Imperial College School of Medicine in 2001, having originally enrolled to read medicine at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School in 1995. He obtained an intercalated BSc in Pharmacology during his undergraduate medical studies. As a postgraduate, he specialised in infectious diseases and general internal medicine, working at major teaching hospitals and specialist centres across London. From 2009 to 2013, Jake was the CRI Clinical Research Fellow for the Mechanisms of Severe Acute Influenza Consortium (MOSAIC) study, which was supported by a joint award from the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council. His PhD was supervised by Professors Peter Openshaw and Jonathan Weber, and his thesis focussed on host gene expression profiling and immune mediator responses in patients with severe influenza and other respiratory infections. Jake was also a visiting researcher at the Division of Immunoregulation, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, where he worked with the MOSAIC transcriptomics lead, Professor Anne O'Garra. Between October 2014 and October 2015, Jake was Lead Clinician and a Co-Investigator for the Rapid Assessment of Potential Interventions and Drugs for Ebola (RAPIDE) clinical trials of potential treatments for Ebola virus disease in West Africa. These unique trials were led by Prof Peter Horby, Director of the Epidemic diseases Research Group Oxford (ERGO), at the University of Oxford. Jake remains an Honorary Senior Clinical Researcher at the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, part of the Nuffield Department of Medicine. He has worked in seven Ebola Treatment Centres across Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, and also has experience of caring for viral haemorrhagic fever patients in the UK.

Epidemic diseases, Pharmacology, infectious diseases