Nkwan Jacob served as the pioneer IPC nurse of Banso Baptist Hospital (BBH) from 2002 to 2007, and IPC supervisor of the Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services CBCHS) from 2011 to 2019., He conceived and implemented several IPC improvement projects, the most important being the local production of Alcohol Based Hand Rub (ABHR), which revolutionised hand hygiene practices and significantly led to the successful reduction of neonatal sepsis in the maternity units of the CBCHS. Jacob has coordinated the Fundamentals of Infection Prevention & Control (FIPC), which is a six-month IPC course offered by the Infection Control Africa Network (ICAN). He is a board member and the Honorary Secretary of ICAN, board member of International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC), and member of the Society for Health Care Epidemiology of America (SHEA), Association of Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) as well as Infection Prevention and Control Association (IPAC), Canada. He has published several IPC research articles.