Dr Nicole Allard is a senior research fellow and currently clinical adviser on the HiT3 program (hepatitis integration into triple elimination) as part of the Doherty Strategic Health Partnership funded by DFAT. Nicole is a senior lecturer in the Department of General Practice and Infectious Diseases at the University of Melbourne and is supervising masters and PhD students. She has an honorary position at VIDRL and is general practitioner at cohealth.
She has a special interest in hepatitis B treatment and triple elimination (elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV, syphilis and Hepatitis B) in the region. She has participated in WHO assessment of viral hepatitis programmes in Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Cambodia. She has been actively involved in research translation and leading guideline development as co-chair the National COVID-19 Evidence Taskforce Primary & Chronic Care Panel and Liver Cancer Road Map Expert Reference Committee who developed for Cancer Council Australia and has assisted with guideline and referral pathway development in Pacific countries. She has been involved in development and delivery of training for primary health care clinicians in the delivery of hepatitis care in Australia and overseas.
Current appointments
Senior Lecturer – Department of General Practice and Department of Infectious Diseases
Epidemiologist honorary – VIDRL
General practitioner – cohealth
