Dr Nahid Bhadelia

Dr Nahid Bhadelia is an infectious diseases physician, founding Director of Boston University (BU) Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy and Research and an associate Director of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), a state-of-the-art maximum containment research facility at BU. She is an Associate Professor at BU School of Medicine. 

She has prior and ongoing experience in health system response to pathogens such as H1N1, Zika, Lassa fever, Marburg virus disease, and COVID-19 at the state, national, and global levels. Over the last decade, Dr. Bhadelia designed and served as the Medical Director of the Special Pathogens Unit (SPU), a medical unit designed to care for patients with highly communicable diseases.

She has experience with direct patient care, outbreak preparedness and response, healthcare worker training and medical counter measures research during multiple Ebola virus disease outbreaks in West and East Africa. She has previously served as a clinical lead of a viral hemorrhagic clinical research facility in Uganda entitled Joint Mobile Emerging Disease Intervention Clinical Capability (JMEDICC) program and currently codirects the National Institutes of Health’s Fogarty International Center–funded research training program in Liberia, entitled Boston University and University of Liberia Emerging and Epidemic Virus Research (BULEEVR). 

Her research focuses on global health security, as well as identification of safe and effective clinical interventions and infection control measures related to viral hemorrhagic fevers and other emerging infectious diseases.