Tim Eckmanns is trained as a medical doctor and is board-certified in hygiene and environmental health. He also has a Master of Science from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and has a Master of Medical Computer Science (MCS) from the Berlin University of Applied Science. Dr. Eckmanns is the head of the Division for healthcare-associated infections, surveillance of antimicrobial resistance and consumption at the Robert Koch Institute, the German national public health institute. He has wide-spread expertise in infectious disease epidemiology, particularly regarding surveillance and outbreak investigation as well as in evidence-based public health. In the years 2014 and 2015 for 11 months he was seconded to the World Health Organisation working in the field of Ebola in Geneva and in Sierra Leone.
