Dr. Kristin Bratton Nelson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology. Her overarching research interest is in the epidemiology and prevention of respiratory infections, primarily tuberculosis and more recently COVID-19. Dr. Nelson's research program integrates dynamic modeling, causal inference methods, and pathogen genomics to characterize patterns of disease transmission and understand the impact of interventions, including new vaccines, on morbidity and mortality from infectious disease. The ultimate goal of her research is to reduce the global burden of respiratory infections, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
For a full list of publications, see my Google scholar or NCBI bibliography page.
Areas of Interest
- Causal Inference
- Genomics
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Infectious Disease Dynamics
- Vaccines
Education
- BS 2008, University of Arizona
- MPH 2012, Emory University
- PhD 2018, Emory University
Publications
- Nelson KN, Churchyard G, Cobelens F, Hanekom WA, Hill P, Lopman B, Mave V, Rangaka MX, Vekemans J, White R, Wong EB, Martinez L, García-Basteiro A. , 2023, Measuring indirect transmission-reducing effects in tuberculosis vaccine efficacy trials: why and how? , Lancet Microbe, 4, E651-656
- Nelson KN, Siegler AJ, Sullivan PS, Bradley H, Hall E, Luisi N. Hipp-Ramsey P, Sanchez T, Shioda K, Lopman BA, 2022, Nationally Representative Social Contact Patterns in the United States, August 2020-April 2021, Epidemics, ,
- Nelson KN, Lopman BA, 2022, The Hiatus of the Handshake, Science, ,
- Liu CY, Berlin J, Kiti MC, Del Fava E, Grow A, Zagheni E, Melegaro A, Jenness SM, Omer S, Lopman BA, Nelson KN, 2021, Rapid review of social contact patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic, Epidemiology, 32, 781-91
- Lau M, Grenfell B, Nelson KN, Lopman BA, 2020, Characterizing super-spreading events and age-specific infectivity of COVID-19 transmission in Georgia, USA, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ,
- Nelson KN, Binney ZO, Chamberlain AT, 2020, Excess Pneumonia Mortality During a Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak in Flint, Michigan, Epidemiology, ,
- Nelson KN, Gandhi NR, Mathema B, Lopman BA, Brust JCM, Auld SC, Ismail N, Omar SV, Brown TS, Allana S, Campbell A, Moodley P, Mlisana K, Shah NS, Jenness SM., 2020, Modeling missing cases and transmission links in networks of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, American Journal of Epidemiology, 189, 735-745
- Brown TS, Challagundla L, Baugh EH, Omar SV, Mustaev A, Auld SC, Shah NS, Kreiswirth BN, Brust JCM, Nelson KN, Narechania A, Kurepina N, Mlisana K, Bonneau R, Eldholm V, Ismail N, Kolokotronis SO, Robinson DA, Gandhi NR, Mathema B, 2019, Pre-detection history of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ,