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Nahid Bhadelia

Founding Director, CEID; Founding Director, BEACON; Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases, Boston University

Dr. Bhadelia is the founding director of Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases. She is a board-certified infectious diseases physician and an Associate Professor at the BU School of Medicine. She served the Senior Policy Advisor for Global COVID-19 Response for the White House COVID-19 Response Team in 2022-2023, where she coordinated the interagency programs for global COVID-19 vaccine donations from the United States and was the policy lead for Project NextGen, $5B HHS program aimed at developing next generation vaccines and treatments for pandemic prone coronaviruses. She also served as the interim Testing Coordinator for the White House MPOX Response Team. She is the Founding Director and co-founder of Biothreats Emergence, Analysis and Communications Network (BEACON), an open-source outbreak surveillance program. 

Dr. Bhadelia’s research focuses on operational global health security and pandemic preparedness, including medical countermeasure evaluation and clinical care for emerging infections, diagnostics evaluation and positioning, infection control policy development, and healthcare worker training. She has health system response experience with pathogens such as H1N1, Zika, Lassa fever, Marburg virus disease, and COVID-19 at the state, national, and global levels.

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Terminating Superbugs: How New Technologies Can Fight Antimicrobial Resistance

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