Edward Anthony Nardell MD

Edward Anthony Nardell, MD, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) is a pulmonologist with a special interest in tuberculosis. He trained in pulmonary medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital with additional research training at Boston University School of Medicine. While at Boston City Hospital, Dr. Nardell became director of tuberculosis control for the City of Boston.

In the early 1980's, Dr Nardell was also appointed medical director of tuberculosis control for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, a position he held for 18 years. In 1981 he became chief of pulmonary medicine and director of tuberculosis control for the city of Cambridge, positions he held until 2005. While at Cambridge Hospital, he hired a medical student by the name of Paul Farmer as a Creole-speaking outreach worker for the TB program.

Although informally involved with Dr. Farmers' NGO, Partners In Health (PIH) since its inception, in 2002 he officially joined PIH with a focus on TB research. In 2005 he left Cambridge Hospital to assume his full-time research position in the Division of Global Health Equity at BWH. He has additional academic appointments in the HMS Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, and also at Harvard School of Public Health.