Newark, New Brunswick, & Blackwood, NJ
Associate Professor, François-Xavier Bagnoud Endowed Chair in Community and Family Centered Care
Newark Health Sciences
SSB 810B South
(973) 972-6268
Centers: François-Xavier Bagnoud Center
Dr. Nelson currently serves as the Director of the HRSA-funded AIDS Education and Training Center National Coordinating Resource Center, Principal Investigator of the HRSA-funded Special Projects of National Significance award Improving STI Screening and Treatment among People with or at Risk for HIV, and as a co-investigator on the NINR R01, Ending the HIV Epidemic with Equity: An All-facility Intervention to Reduce Structural Racism and Discrimination and Its Impact on Patient and Healthcare Staff Wellbeing at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center, Rutgers School of Nursing. Having provided healthcare to adolescents and young adults in numerous settings, including hospital-based adolescent HIV clinics, a community-based street youth program, mobile healthcare vans, and in a high school-based clinic, in New York led to his current efforts. Research interests include healthcare inequities of sexual and gender minority youth, sexually transmitted infections, healthcare outcomes of adolescents/young adults with HIV, HIV prevention, and engagement in healthcare.
Dr. Nelson received a BA in psychology from Washington University in St. Louis, an MSN (pediatric clinical nurse specialist) from Yale University School of Nursing, a post-master’s pediatric nurse practitioner certification from Columbia University School of Nursing, and a PhD in nursing from New York University.