Site Manager, Serious Communicable Disease Unit
Emory University Hospital, US
Jill Morgan, RN Site Manager, Emory University Hospital biocontainment unit
Jill Morgan earned her nursing degree from Georgia State University and has over thirty-five years of bedside nursing experience in emergency and critical care. She is on Emory’s Serious Communicable Disease Unit team and cared for all five of Emory’s viral hemorrhagic fever patients. She now serves as the site manager for the Emory biocontainment unit and has worked to validate the Unit’s processes and protocols, including the inactivation of special pathogen waste and the safe doffing of complex PPE ensembles. Jill is a PPE subject matter expert and co-lead of the PPE Working Group for NETEC, the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center, an ASPR funded organization charged with improving the readiness of the US healthcare system for infectious pathogens. For NETEC, Jill helps create and deliver frontline education to thousands of healthcare workers, evaluates ensembles, protocols, and plans, and assess the readiness of healthcare facilities.
Jill was appointed to the National Academies Committee on Personal Protective Equipment (COPPE) in 2022. She is a member of ASTM, AAMI, and APIC.
