Research, ideas, and leadership for a more secure, peaceful world

Past Event
Seminar

Emerging Infectious Diseases Outbreaks and Research Capacity Building: A Core Component of the Global Health Security Agenda

RSVP Required Open to the Public

Dr. Nahid Bhadelia is an infectious diseases physician at Boston University School of Medicine. She oversees the medical response program for Boston University’s maximum containment biosafety level 4 program at National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories and is the Medical Director of Special Pathogens Unit at Boston Medical Center. She serves on national and interagency groups focused on medical countermeasures, the intersection between research and clinical care for emerging pathogens.

Date: Time: - Location: Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369
Dr. Nahid Bhadelia

About

Dr. Nahid Bhadelia is an infectious diseases physician at Boston University School of Medicine. She oversees the medical response program for Boston University’s maximum containment biosafety level 4 program at National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories and is the Medical Director of Special Pathogens Unit at Boston Medical Center. She serves on national and interagency groups focused on medical countermeasures, the intersection between research and clinical care for emerging pathogens.

During the West African Ebola epidemic, she served as a clinician in several Ebola treatment units, working with World Health Organization and Partners in Health. She has served as a technical advisor to Partners in Health for their Ebola response program in Sierra Leone. Dr. Bhadelia has previously taught with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US and in Taiwan to help increase healthcare worker readiness to combat emerging infections. 

Dr. Bhadelia is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Human Security at the Tufts Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and teaches a course on “Health, Human Security and Emerging Pathogens.”

Managing the Microbe is a new project at the Belfer Center aspiring to fill the critical need to address the growing threats from biological weapons and natural disease outbreaks. It is led by Andrew C. Weber, who served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs for President Obama, and Barry R. Bloom, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Immunology and Infec­tious Diseases and Former Dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Contact