Ms. Elisabeth Nelson
United States / New Haven

Institution

Yale School of Public Health

Based in

United States , New Haven

Languages

English Portuguese

Short Bio

I am a third-year Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases PhD student. I graduated from Georgetown University with a BS in the Biology of Global Health and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine with a MSc in the Control of Infectious Diseases. I am interested in novel forms of vector control and in optimizing Wolbachia release programs to help with scale-up and expansion in low-resource arboviral-endemic settings. I am is currently working on a Wolbachia release randomized control trial in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and anlayzing Wolbachia programs in Rio de Janeiro and Campo Grande.

Other Expertise

One Health Epidemiology Emerging Infectious Diseases