Prof Page, Nicola

Nicola Page is a principal scientist, leading the Virology Division of the Centre for Enteric Diseases at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases. She holds an extra-ordinary professor position within the Department of Medical Virology at the University of Pretoria, is a registered medical scientist (Virology) with the Health Professionals Council of South Africa (HPCSA) and has a C1 National Research Foundation (NRF) rating. She completed her undergraduate training at the University of Pretoria in 1995 (cum laude), following up with an Honours degree in 1997. She moved to the Medical University of South Africa, under the guidance of Prof Duncan Steele and competed an MSc(Med) in Medical Virology in 2001 and a PhD in 2005. She has also subsequently completed the SA-FETP training program (2014-2015) and obtained an MPH at the University of Pretoria, graduating cum laude in 2016. She is a member of several national and international professional associations and working groups.
She has authored or co-authored more than 60 refereed articles in scientific journals, worked on the WHO Manual of rotavirus detection and characterization and was a guest editor on the Journal of Infectious Diseases – Rotavirus in Africa supplement. She has presented numerous papers at national and international conferences and meetings and is a principal investigators on projects supported by national and international funding agencies. In addition, she has successfully supervised 1 BSc (Hons), 7 MSc, 3 MPH and 3 PhDs with 2 PhDs and 2 MSc projects currently in process. Her main research fields include diarrhoeal diseases, the development of molecular techniques for the detection and characterization of pathogens associated with diarrhoea, the monitoring of rotavirus vaccine effectiveness, molecular epidemiology of enteric viruses, evaluation of new enteric vaccine candidates, development of new data tools for studying the epidemiology of diarrhoea and the gut microbiome.