Bernard Nahlen
Past Core Course:
- Panel: Financing Malaria Elimination: The Growing Reliance on Country Financing
Dr Bernard Nahlen is director of the Eck Institute for Global Health at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to this role, he served as deputy coordinator of the US President’s Malaria Initiative and senior advisor in the Performance Evaluation and Policy unit of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria and as senior technical advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) Malaria Programme. At WHO, he led the Monitoring and Evaluation team as well as the Malaria in Pregnancy team. Prior to working at WHO, Dr Nahlen worked in Kenya as director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) field research station in collaboration with the Kenya Medical Research Institute. He joined the CDC in 1986 as an epidemic intelligence service officer assigned to the Malaria Branch.
Dr Nahlen completed his residency in Family Practice at the University of California, San Francisco and his second residency in Preventive Medicine and later served as deputy director of the Los Angeles County AIDS Epidemiology Program.