Joost Hopman, MD, PhD, DTM&H is working more than 5 years as medical director of the Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands and is appointed as adjunct professor at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He is trained and specialized in medicine and medical microbiology, tropical medicine, infection prevention and control and health care management at the University of Utrecht, Radboud University Medical Center, Liverpool University and Harvard Business School. His work focuses on infection prevention and the redesign of health care delivery. It includes new innovative methods of health care delivery and patient safety programs , clinical pathway development , sustainability, prevention, appropriate care, the hospital built environment, and implemen tation strategies. Research and teaching activities focuses on Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), planetary health, and leadership in health care in both high and low resource settings. or his work he was elected as one of the International SHEA ambassadors in 2016 and was awarded with the Radboud University medal for young potentials (2016). Furthermore, he is awarded with the Kelsey lecture (2023) and the Lowbury lecture (2025). In 2017 2019 he was a member of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) conference organizing committee. Since 2020 he chairs the Prevention Committee, that coordinates all prevention projects and programs in the Radboudumc. He acts as a consultant for Doctors without Borders (Médecins sans frontières) Amsterdam. He is an advisory board member of the Infectio n Control African Network (ICAN) and acted as a board member of the Dutch IPC section of the Netherlands Society of Medical Microbiol ogy (NVMM). During the COVID 19 pandemic he served as a member of the WHO Environment and Engineering Control Expert Advisor Panel (ECAP) for COVID 19, the WHO ad hoc COVID 19 IPC expert group and the Federation Medical Specialists (FMS) Guideline development expert g roup IPC, the Netherlands. Furthermore, he acted in 2020 as chair of the COVID 19 Outbreak Management Team, University Medical Center Nijmegen, The Netherlands Joost was invited to work as an IPC consultant for World Health Organization (WHO) in 2014 and 2015 in the Ebola outbreak response in Geneva and Sierra Leone and this has provided him with valuable experience in international outbreaks. From 2015 2018 he wa s appointed as a senior extraordinary lecturer in community health at the Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is co author of more than 50 publications in peer review journals (among others in NEJM, JAMA network, Lancet infectious disease, EClinical medicine), a textbook chapter on patient areas and environmental cleaning and he contributed to WHO, CDC and WIP guidelines. Joost is strongly committed to improve health system s in both high and low/middle income countries.