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A lifelong animal lover, Professor Jacobs has devoted his career and voluntary work to improving social welfare and human wellbeing through health and education. He joins the RSPCA with the mission to use his expertise to advance the cause of ÅÝܽÊÓƵ.
Professor Jacobs has chaired the boards of a number of high profile and complex institutions, and is currently chair of Barts Health NHS Trust and City St George's University in London. A specialist in surgical treatment of women’s cancers at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and University College Hospital in London, for the past 40 years he has led life-changing work on early detection and risk prediction of cancer.
In 2005, he established the Uganda Women’s Health Initiative, and is a former President of the British Gynaecological Cancer Society and the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology. He is also a Trustee of the Eve Appeal charity, which he founded in the 1980s.