Robert Colebunders, MD, PhD, is an Emeritus Professor of infectious diseases at the Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp. He worked from 1985 to 1988 in the Democratic of Congo as coordinator of the clinical studies on HIV/AIDS of “Projet SIDA” in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. April 2004-April 2005 he worked during a sabbatical year at the Infectious Diseases Institute in Kampala, Uganda. He was a member of the international team that investigated the Kikwit Ebola and the Durba Marburg outbreaks in the Democratic republic of Congo. Currently he is investigating the link between onchocerciasis and epilepsy and he is co-coordinator of an Mpox EDCTP research project to investigate the outbreak in South Kivu.
