Brett D. Nelson

Brett D. Nelson, MD, MPH, DTM&H. Dr Nelson is an attending pediatrician and global health faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. His professional interests are health care provision, research, and advocacy for vulnerable populations, particularly children and individuals affected by conflict and disaster. Dr Nelson has advanced degrees in public health (Johns Hopkins) and tropical medicine (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). He has been involved in pediatric care, academic research, and consultancy in over a dozen disrupted areas while working for organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control, International Rescue Committee, International Red Cross and Red Crescent, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and Médecins Sans Frontières. He helped establish the nation's first Pediatric Global Health Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and was its first fellow. Recently in Liberia, Dr Nelson served as Liberia's Senior Pediatrician and as the Interim Chair of Pediatrics and Newborn Medicine for the country's sole teaching hospital. He currently leads newborn survival programs in Tanzania and Ghana. His academic work includes peer-reviewed publications in leading journals including Pediatrics, New England Journal of Medicine, and World Health and Population. Dr Nelson is the Director of Pediatric and Newborn Programs at the MGH Division of Global Health and Human Rights, and he co-directs a popular course at Harvard Medical School on tropical diseases and global health. He is the Editor of a new Wiley-Blackwell medical textbook, Essential Clinical Global Health.