Vicky Debold, PhD, RN, is an NVIC board member and volunteer Director of Patient Safety. She has worked with NVIC since 2006 on vaccine safety education projects. .
She has worked in the health care field for more than 30 years as an ICU nurse, health care administrator and health policy analyst primarily focusing on pediatrics and patient safety. Currently she is an Affiliate Faculty member at George Mason University, Health Administration and Policy Department. She also serves as a director and committee member for several autism non-profit organizations.
The consumer voting member of the Food and Drug Administration’s Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC), since 2008 she has worked on public engagement projects at the National Vaccine Program Office, National Vaccine Advisory Committee — Vaccine Safety Working Group, and was a consultant to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Board of Scientific Counselors.
Dr. Debold previously worked as a health policy analyst for the U.S. Congress at the Physician Payment Review Commission; the Michigan Health and Safety Coalition; and the Michigan State Commission on Patient Safety. Additionally, she has served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan and an Associate Professor and Director of the Health Systems Management Program at the University of Detroit, Mercy.
Her doctoral degree is from the University of Michigan (1999) — School of Public Health (Health Services Organization and Policy) and the School of Nursing (Health Systems Administration). She was a University of Michigan Regent's Fellow and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in health systems research.
Her son — her only child — experienced serious, long-term health problems following receipt of seven live virus and killed bacterial vaccines at 15-months, which sparked her interest in vaccine safety and chronic illness among children.