Scott  Nash

Scott Nash provides technical and scientific leadership to the The Carter Center's Trachoma Control Program. Nash conducts impact surveys, randomized control trials, and operational research to better understand trachoma and improve interventions. Nash develops systems for monitoring and evaluating program activities, develops measurable indicators for field research, and collaborates to develop new diagnostics.

Prior to joining The Carter Center, Nash served as a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Institutes of Health, studying the immunoepidemiology of malaria in pregnancy. Nash also served as an HIV/AIDS and biology educator with the U.S. Peace Corps for two years in rural Tanzania.

Nash earned both a Master of Science and doctorate in Population Health Sciences-Epidemiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was an epidemiologist for two large observational studies of the aging senses. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in education and zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.