Samuel Pierre, a research physician at the major Haitian HIV/AIDS treatment and study center GHESKIO, flew to Denver on 2 March, excited for what he expected to be a short work trip to a conference. Three days later, after presenting a poster describing his team’s successful trial of an HIV…
Eric Nelson, an associate professor at the University of Florida’s Emerging Pathogens Institute, joins Sarah to talk about an infectious bacteria that’s fighting on two fronts. The bacterium that causes cholera—Vibrio cholerae—can be killed off with antibiotics but at the same time, it is hunted by a phage virus living inside…
The battle that University of Florida Health researcher Eric Nelson, M.D., Ph.D., and his international team of collaborators are unraveling began several billion years ago when bacteria and their viral killers began a veritable genetic arms race.
For adults and older children, dehydration from diarrhea is a common, pervasive threat: Annually, more than 1 million die from it.
Dr. Eric Nelson is committed to the pursuit of accessible health care around the clock, both day and night. The University of Florida Department of Environmental and Global Health and Department of Pediatrics associate professor has been with UF since 2016. Apart from his time at the UF College of…
Road traffic injuries in Tanzania. Bush fires in Belize. Acutely sick children in Haiti. Learn how Trek Medics works with local humanitarian groups to deploy and manage community-based emergency response systems using basic mobile technologies…
Healthcare accessibility remains a pressing issue, particularly in resource-limited settings. The latest podcast episode brings to light the innovative MotoMeds model that’s bridging health access gaps in Haiti. Dr. Eric Nelson and Molly Klarman, driving forces behind MotoMeds Healthline, discuss a revolutionary pediatric telemedicine and medication delivery service.
We sit down with Eureka High School graduate Dr. Eric Nelson from the University of Florida’s emerging pathogens institute to talk about moto-meds, a program he’s developed to deliver emergency medications to stranded patients in Haiti. Also, thousands of poor kids and adults are getting kicked off Medi-Cal because of…
When he first volunteered in Haiti during the 2010 cholera outbreak, Dr. Eric Nelson noted that his team was seeing more and more patients with avoidable dehydration whose symptoms had worsened during the overnight hours when access to medical care was unavailable. Haunted by this, Nelson, a former Fogarty Fellow who…
Did you know that in low-income countries, there is only one doctor for every 10,000 people?* Here are some other stats that will blow your mind: 50% of people across the globe lack access to essential health care.* 99% of maternal deaths happen in developing countries.* Each day, 15,000 children…
