
Nellie Bristol is a senior associate with the CSIS Global Health Policy Center. She leads the Center’s work on efforts to repurpose polio eradication assets for long-term disease control and toward other global health priorities. In addition to an active working group convened to discuss eradication and transition as it relates to U.S. global health policy, she writes extensively on the issue and consults with other organizations focused on transition planning. She also writes about U.S. government relations with multilateral organizations, including the World Health Organization and the World Bank Group. Her major reports for CSIS include Catalyzing Health Gains through Global Polio Eradication, which focused on polio transition in India; Bolstering Public Health Capacities through Global Polio Eradication, which examined polio assets in Ethiopia; The Power of Straight Talk, which looked at the impact of the Independent Monitoring Board on eradication efforts. Bristol came to CSIS following a long career as a health policy journalist. She spent two decades writing about domestic health policy on Capitol Hill before expanding her coverage to global health in 2005. Bristol has written for top publications in the field including The Lancet, Health Affairs, and Congressional Quarterly, covering HIV/AIDS policy, foreign aid and national security, noncommunicable diseases, and efforts to combat maternal mortality. She holds a master’s degree in public health/global health from George Washington University.
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Innovation for Eradication
Report by Nellie Bristol and Michaela Simoneau — July 2, 2020

The U.S. Government and Antimicrobial Resistance
Report by Nellie Bristol — June 9, 2020

Ensuring Healthy Populations through a New Era of Global Immunization
Report by Nellie Bristol — December 20, 2019

The New Threat - Making Sense of Vaccine-Derived Polio
Podcast Episode by Nellie Bristol — December 3, 2019

Securing Healthy Populations in a New Era of Global Immunization
Event by Nellie Bristol , J. Stephen Morrison , Katherine E. Bliss , Edna Yolani Batres , Seth Berkley , Nahid Bhadelia , Rina Dey , Henrietta Fore , and Amanda Glassman , Emilie Karafillakis , Rebecca Martin , Violaine Mitchell , Kate O'Brien , Muhammad Ali Pate , Kerry Pelzman , Congressman Adam B. Schiff , Anne Schuchat (RADM, USPHS, RET) , David Broniatowski , Senator Roger Wicker — September 27, 2019

Enhancing U.S. Leadership in a New Era of Global Immunization
Brief by Nellie Bristol , Michaela Simoneau , and Katherine E. Bliss — September 27, 2019

Orchestrating Global Polio Eradication
Report by Nellie Bristol and Michaela Simoneau — September 26, 2019

Rethinking Vaccine Delivery
Podcast Episode by Nellie Bristol — September 17, 2019

The New Landscape for Gavi 5.0
Podcast Episode by Nellie Bristol and Katherine E. Bliss — August 20, 2019

Polio Labs
Report by Nellie Bristol and Michaela Simoneau — June 26, 2019
