Dr. Gina Ogilvie holds the positions of Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Control of human papillomavirus (HPV) related diseases and prevention and professor in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. She also serves as senior public health scientist at the BC Centre for Disease Control and associate director at the Women’s Health Research Institute. Dr. Ogilvie is currently principal investigator on over $10 million dollars in research grants focused on both the public health and clinical aspects of reproductive health, sexually transmitted infections, HPV screening and the HPV vaccine.  

She received her Doctor of Medicine from McMaster University, where she completed a specialty in family medicine and a fellowship in population health and primary care. She earned her Master of Science from the University of British Columbia and her Doctorate in Public Health from the University of North Carolina. Dr. Ogilvie is the recipient of many honours, including being an inaugural recipient of the prestigious Canadian Institutes of Health Research Foundation Grant awards, which recognize scholars for their seven years of research leadership in their respective fields of research excellence.