Karin Nielsen

Dr. Karin Nielsen is a clinical professor of pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and an expert in pediatric infections and transmissions, with a specialty in how pregnent women transmit infections to their babies. Nielsen has led clinical trials, funded by the National Institutes of Health, studying mother-to-child HIV transmission and other congenital infections in Brazil, the United States and sub-Saharan Africa.

Nielsen, who is affiliated with Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA, is originally from Brazil and in early 2016 joined a network of researchers investigating the Zika epidemic and the pathogenesis of mother-to-child Zika virus transmission in Brazil. Nielsen is also a researcher in international TB studies. 

Nielsen is available to do interviews in Portuguese, Spanish and French.