Eric Nilles

Dr. Eric Nilles, MD MSc, is the Director of the Program on Infectious Diseases and Epidemics at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, and an attending physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine. He competed his clinical training at Yale and studied tropical medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has worked in more than 30 countries and has broad experience working with MSF and WHO responding to disease outbreaks, humanitarian crises, and other public health emergencies in conflict zones such as Darfur, DR Congo, and Chad; the Ebola outbreak in Liberia and Sierra Leone; and tsunamis and cyclone responses in the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tonga, and Micronesia. He has specific expertise in early warning disease surveillance, outbreak response, epidemic risk assessments, population-level seroepidemiological studies, and health security strengthening. He has authored or co-authored over 50 scientific papers and book chapters related to epidemic-prone diseases, outbreak response, seroepidemiology, and public health emergencies.

Companies

• Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School (2017)
• Director | Infectious Diseases & Epidemics Program | Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Harvard University (2017)
• Attending Physician Brigham and Women's Hospital (2017)
• Team Leader, Emerging Disease Surveillance & Response World Health Organization (2011 — 2016)
• Field doctor/Medical Team Leader Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) USA (2007 — 2010)
• Assistant Professor University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine (2004 — 2010)

Education

• Master's degree, Tropical Medicine & International Health London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of London (2005 - 2007)
• Yale University (2000 — 2004)
• Doctor of Medicine - MD University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health (1996 — 2000)
• Bachelor of Science - BS University of Wisconsin-Madison (1991 — 1996)