Assistant Professor
Child Health Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Environmental and Global Health
College of Public Health and Health Professions
eric.nelson@ufl.edu
Reseach Interest
  • Develops clinical decision-support and data collection technologies to improve the health of poor communities in remote-settings using a process called human centered design to define challenges and explore sustainable solutions.
  • Develops high-throughput molecular methods to track infectious disease outbreaks in near real-time.
  • Characterization of fine-scale transmission of water-borne pathogens between and within households in remote settings.
Area of Research
Community and Economic Development, Cross-Disciplinary Methodologies, Epidemiology and Surveillance, Infectious Disease
Region of Practice
Africa, Caribbean, South Asia
Bangladesh, Haiti, Tanzania