Dr. Karin Nielsen, director of the UCLA Center for Brazilian Studies, has been awarded the 2014 Brazilian Diaspora Award (Prêmio Diáspora Brasil) for her “inspiring work as a Brazilian abroad.” The award specifically recognizes leading Brazilian professionals living abroad and invites their input into Brazilian public policy in their areas of expertise.
A professor of pediatric infectious diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA since 1996 and a practicing physician at the UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center, Nielsen is one of only three winners of the award, taking the top honor in the health sciences category.
Nielsen is a graduate of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, where she earned a master’s degree while completing a five-year clinical research and virology fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at the medical school. She has conducted collaborative research in Brazil and Mozambique that has changed HIV standards of care worldwide. Specifically, she has developed or assisted in the development of seven National Institutes of Health protocols to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
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