Nathaniel F. Pierce, M.D.

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Dr. Pierce is Professor Emeritus of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His career in Medicine includes research at Hopkins, eleven years working with the World Health Organization in Switzerland and three years in Calcutta, India developing and implementing oral rehydration therapy. For the latter effort, he received the Pollin Prize for Pediatric Research in 2002.

At the WHO, among other things, he was responsible for the Diarrhoeal Disease Programme's efforts to promote and support research on a wide variety of topics related to diarrhoeal diseases in young children, including vaccine development, case management, epidemiology, and disease prevention.

Nate received his M.D. from the University of Michigan in 1958 and spent his internship and residency at the Los Angeles County General Hospital. He is married, has three children and five grandchildren, and lives in Baldwin, Maryland.