Gina Ogilvie is a senior scientist at BCCDC. She is also a professor in the UBC School of Population & Public Health.
Dr. Ogilvie’s clinical and research focus is on sexually transmitted infections, human papillomavirus, HIV in women and care for marginalized populations.
She is also a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair at Global Control of HPV Related Disease and Cancer. She is co-principal investigator of the HPV FOCAL study, a large clinical trial in BC examining new screening methods for cervical cancer.
Dr. Ogilvie is the assistant director of the Women’s Health Research Institute.
She obtained her medical degree and family practice certification at McMaster University, and then did a fellowship in population health at McMaster University. She completed her Masters of Science (MSc) in clinical epidemiology at UBC, focusing on the care of HIV-positive women, and her Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) in HPV primary screening at the University of North Carolina at the Gillings School of Global Public Health.