Nicole Forbes, PhD, is a Senior Scientific Project Coordinator, at the NACI Secretariat. She has worked at PHAC providing technical leadership on vaccine guidance since 2021. Nicole’s academic background is in virology, and researched adaptive mutations in Influenza A virus during her doctoral studies at the University of Ottawa. Nicole then conducted postdoctoral training at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, exploring small-molecule mediated optimization of vaccine and viral vector production. Since joining PHAC, Nicole has supported NACI as a technical lead on several files including HPV, mpox and other orthopoxviruses, COVID-19, and Measles.
