Brett Nelson, MD, MPH, DTM&H

Brett D. Nelson, MD, MPH, DTM&H is Associate Professor and senior global health faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He has been involved in clinical care and program management in dozens of countries on all seven continents while working for organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), UNICEF, International Red Cross and Red Crescent, Physicians for Human Rights, and Harvard University. His career interests focus on addressing the needs of vulnerable populations, particularly newborns, children, and mothers affected by extreme poverty, conflict, or disaster. 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 has been heavily involved in leading large-scale, country-level newborn and child health programs in several countries in East and West Africa and is a Fulbright U.S. Global Scholar for the U.S. State Department. He directs Harvard Medical School’s course on clinical global health and serves as editor of the leading textbook on this topic, Essential Clinical Global Health.