Vicki L. Herrera, MS

serves as a Research Coordinator and Lab Manager at University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Global Center for Health Security and the Training and Education Coordinator for the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit. She is co-chair of the Laboratory Workgroup for the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC). With over 20 years of clinical- and research-laboratory experience, she has led specimen-handling, select-agent oversight, and biocontainment-unit lab operations during high-consequence outbreaks, including Ebola, COVID-19, and Mpox.