Dr. Deborah Money, MD, FRCSC is a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and is an associate member of both the Department of Medicine and the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. Following residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology, she did a Fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington, becoming Canada’s first dual specialist in OBGYN and Infectious Diseases.
She is an active clinician scientist in Reproductive Infectious Diseases, with several large multicentered research projects on the maternal/infant microbiome and HIV in women. As well, she has been the lead for a study of the safety, immunogenicity and efficacy of the HPV vaccine in girls and women living with HIV. She has published more than 200 peer reviewed publications and has received more than $29M in peer reviewed funding.
She is currently the lead for CANCOVID-Preg, a Canada-wide surveillance program studying the outcome following COVID-19 for pregnant women and their infants and the lead for a Canadian Seroprevalence study of SARS-CoV-2 using antenatal sera. Dr. Money was the Executive Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at UBC until June 2020, she was previously the inaugural Executive Director of the Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) and Vice-President, Research for the BC Women’s Hospital and a past President of the Infectious Diseases Society of Obstetrics & Gynecology (IDSOG).
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