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, where she also helps create and deliver education to healthcare workers, evaluates ensembles, protocols, and plans, and assess the readiness of healthcare facilities. She is a member of ASTM, AAMI, ANSI, and APIC.

In 2023, Jill was appointed to the National Academies Committee on Personal Protective Equipment.