Laura Sauvé

MPH, MD

Investigator, BC Children's Hospital

Dr. Laura Sauvé is a Clinical Assistant Professor and a pediatric infectious disease specialist who has a special interest in Pediatric HIV/AIDS.

Her main research interests include public health surveillance especially with respect to vaccinology, vaccine preventable disease, global child health and pediatric HIV/AIDS.

She joined the Vaccine Evaluation Center in 2007 as the BC site investigator for the Immunization Monitoring Program, Active (IMPAct), a national surveillance system for vaccine preventable diseases and vaccine adverse events in 12 pediatric tertiary care centers across Canada.

She is also the co-primary investigator of the Canadian Perinatal HIV Surveillance Program, which studies vertical transmission of HIV across Canada. As Pediatrics Residency Program Director, she is also involved in a number of medical education research initiatives.