Dr. Gina Ogilvie


Professor, Canada Research Chair in Global Control of HPV related diseases and prevention

School of Population and Public Health

University of British Columbia

Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications)

Dr. Ogilvie is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Control of HPV related diseases and prevention. She is also Senior Public Health Scientist at BC Centre for Disease Control and Senior Research Advisor at the BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre. Dr. Ogilvie is principal investigator on over 5 million dollars in research grants and has received funding from PHAC, CIHR, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Canadian Foundation for Innovation and private foundations.

Her research is focused on both the public health and clinical aspects of reproductive health, sexually transmitted infections, HPV screening and the HPV vaccine, and her findings have been highly influential in setting and directing health policy both in Canada and globally. Among other research projects, she is principal investigator for the ASPIRE program.

She has published over 130 peer reviewed manuscripts and has provided advice and consultation to national and global institutions


Area of Research Expertise
Reproductive health; Sexually transmitted infections; HPV screening; HPV vaccine

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.


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