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Dr. **Laura Sauvé** is a Canadian pediatric infectious disease specialist based in [[canada:british_columbia:Vancouver]], [[canada:British Columbia]]. | Dr. **Laura Sauvé** is a Canadian pediatric infectious disease specialist based in [[canada:british_columbia:Vancouver]], [[canada:British Columbia]]. She is employed by the [[Provincial Health Services Authority]] (PHSA).((//Laura Sauve.// LinkedIn. Retrieved February 1, 2023, from www.linkedin.com/in/laura-sauve-030057236/)) |
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| She is a Clinical Assistant Professor and a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the [[University of British Columbia]] (UBC). She is also the co-primary investigator of the [[Canadian Perinatal HIV Surveillance Program]], funded by the [[Public Health Agency of Canada]] (PHAC).((//Laura Sauvé.// BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. Retrieved February 2, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.02.02-051513/https://www.bcchr.ca/lsauve)) She is also an investigator for the [[CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network]] (CTN).((//Dr. Laura Sauvé | Clinical Care and Management (CCM).// CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network. Retrieved February 2, 2023, from https://archive.ph/oLOJx)) |
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| She is the medical co-lead for Infection Prevention and Control at [[BC Children’s Hospital]] and [[BC Women’s Hospital]]. |
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===== History ===== | ===== History ===== |
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| ==== Education ==== |
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| Sauvé completed medical school and pediatric residency at the [[University of Calgary]], a fellowship at the [[SickKids]], a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in [[Peru]] and a Masters in Public Health at the [[Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health]]. |
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| From August 2006 to August 2007, Sauvé worked for the [[Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative]] (BIPAI).((//Laura Sauve.// LinkedIn. Retrieved February 1, 2023, from www.linkedin.com/in/laura-sauve-030057236/)) |
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| Sauvé joined the [[Vaccine Evaluation Center]] at the [[BC Children's Hospital Research Institute]] in 2007 as the BC site investigator for the [[Canadian Immunization Monitoring Program, ACTive]] (IMPAct).((//Laura Sauvé.// BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. Retrieved February 2, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.02.02-051513/https://www.bcchr.ca/lsauve)) She was the pediatrics residency program director at the [[University of British Columbia]] from 2010 – 2017, and is the education lead for the [[Center for International Child Health]] at [[BC Children’s Hospital]]. |
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==== COVID-19 ==== | ==== COVID-19 ==== |
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| Sauvé is the pediatric representative to the Clinical Research Group at the [[BC Centre for Disease Control]] (BCCDC) which leads review of all provincial [[COVID-19]] guidelines, and the chair of the [[Canadian Paediatric Society]]’s Committee on Infectious Diseases and Immunization. |
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On March 9, 2022, a video featuring Sauvé was uploaded to a [[YouTube]] channel called [[Healthy Canadians]], run by the [[Government of Canada]].((Health Canada. (2022, October 28). //Ask the experts COVID-19 vaccines questions: Safety, ingredients and side effects.// Government of Canada. https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/video/ask-experts-covid-19-vaccines.html)) | On March 9, 2022, a video featuring Sauvé was uploaded to a [[YouTube]] channel called [[Healthy Canadians]], run by the [[Government of Canada]].((Health Canada. (2022, October 28). //Ask the experts COVID-19 vaccines questions: Safety, ingredients and side effects.// Government of Canada. https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/video/ask-experts-covid-19-vaccines.html)) In the video, she downplays the risks of adverse events following injection of children, specifically omitting every severe adverse event. |