Laura Desveaux

Laura Desveaux, PhD is a Canadian behavioural scientist based in Ontario.

Desveaux is an Adjunct Scientist at the Women’s College Research Institute, and an Innovation Fellow for the Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care.¹⁾

Desveaux is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.²⁾

Desveaux formerly served as a member of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table and co-chair of its Behavioural Science Working Group.³⁾

Desveaux is the Scientific Lead & Learning Health System Program Lead at Trillium Health Partners.⁴⁾ She is also the Executive Director of Women Who Lead.

Desveaux is a principal of E2I Consulting alongside Noah Ivers.⁵⁾

Desveaux is associated with the Women in Medicine Summit.⁶⁾ Sponsors for the summit have included 3M, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Celgene, Genentech, Labcorp, Merck, Morgan Stanley, Natera, Pfizer, Seattle Genetics, Tempus, US Army Health Care Recruiting, US National Library of Medicine, Vanium Group, and Yale Cancer Center.⁷⁾

Desveaux's research interests include implementation science, behaviour change, program evaluation, and complex interventions.

In February 2021, Desveaux authored a pre-print paper on vaccine hesitancy in non-physician health care workers in regards to COVID-19 vaccines.⁸⁾