Dr. Erika Vlieghe is an internal medicine and infectious diseases specialist with extensive experience in Belgium as well as in the tropics. She works as a senior clinical staff member and researcher at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp. She also heads the Unit of Tropical Diseases at the Antwerp University Hospital, which is run jointly with ITM. Vlieghe teaches tropical medicine and infectious diseases at ITM and University of Antwerp.
The past few years she carried out pioneering research on antibiotic resistance in Southeast Asia in the framework of her PhD. In October 2014 she was appointed as national Ebola coordinator in Belgium.