Science, Environment and Development Group

Dr. Nicole Szlezák
Center for International Development
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
503 Rubenstein Building
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Tel: (1) 617-384-5737
Fax: (1) 617-496-8753
Email: nicole_szlezak "at" ksg04.harvard.edu
Group affiliation: Research Fellow

Nicole Szlezák is a Doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard’s Center for International Development and a doctoral candidate in the Public Policy Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Her work focuses on institution building and governance in global health. She is interested in new forms of collaboration in global health, including public private partnerships, civil society organizations, and private sector approaches. Her dissertation will investigate the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria and its influence on Aids policy in China. Her research also focuses on institutional arrangements to foster drug development and delivery for diseases that receive little attention in terms of research and development. These include infectious diseases that mainly affect developing countries (the "neglected diseases" such as malaria, tb and river blindness) as well as rare diseases that appear everywhere ("orphan diseases"). Prior to coming to Harvard, Szlezák was a clinical researcher at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Tuebingen, Germany, and at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Gabon, where her work focused on malaria and schistosomiasis. Szlezák holds a medical degree from Humboldt University in Berlin, and a Dr. med. degree from the University of Tuebingen, Germany. She graduated from the Master in Public Administration Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.