Money, Deborah

Professor

CM, BSc, MD, FRCSC, FCAHS

Department Head

Biography

Dr. Deborah Money is Professor and Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She is a clinician/scientist in Reproductive Infectious Diseases, based at the Women’s Health Research Institute, leading several large multicentered research projects in the vaginal microbiome, HIV in pregnancy, studies of the HPV vaccine in women living with HIV. Since March 2020, she pivoted her research group to lead three large pan-Canadian projects to study the impact of COVID-19 on pregnant women and their infants and is now studying syphilis in pregnancy.

She is the Chair of the Infections in Pregnancy committee for the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO). She has been a successful teacher, mentor and research team builder and has published more than 250 peer reviewed publications.

She has received several awards including the Queen Elisabeth II, Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the US based, Infectious Diseases Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (2019), inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2023) and received the Order of Canada in December 2023.

She was on the Canadian Master’s 060 Field Hockey team for 2024.

Areas of Interest in Teaching/Research

Reproductive infectious diseases including, HIV in pregnancy, HPV and cervical cancer, vaginal microbiome and vaginal infections, vaccines in pregnancy, COVID-19 and other respiratory infections in pregnancy, congenital infections.

Reproductive infectious diseases program: https://ridprogram.med.ubc.ca