Nicole Basta 2007-2010 University of Washington ARCS fellow supported by Charles and Eleanor Nolan.

After completing her PhD in the Department of Epidemiology, Nicole was selected for an NIH Director's Early Independence Award.

This award provides $250,000 a year for the next five years to support her research and will allow her to pursue an independent research career. During this time, she will focus on evaluating the duration of protection provided by the new MenAfriVac meningitis vaccine in Mali.
 

Nicole E. Basta, Ph.D.

Antibody persistence after conjugate meningococcal group A vaccination in Mali

Nicole Basta is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health and a Research Associate in the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Previously, she earned an MPhil in Epidemiology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom where she studied as a Gates-Cambridge Scholar, graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with an undergraduate degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and conducted infectious disease outbreak investigations as a Florida Epidemic Intelligence Service Fellow at the Florida Department of Health. Basta has designed and implemented international field studies of the epidemiology of asymptomatic carriers of meningococci incollaboration with the African Meningococcal Carriage Consortium and the Centre pour le Développement des Vaccins-Mali. She also has conducted statistical analyses to evaluate the efficacy and impact of influenza vaccines with the Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Diseases. She aims to understand the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases, to assess the direct and indirect effects of vaccination, and to determine optimal strategies for disease prevention and control.