Ève Dubé obtained her PhD in medical anthropology at Laval University. In addition of being a researcher in the infectious and immune diseases research area of the Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Laval University, she is an invited professor in the department of Anthropology at Laval University. Since 2008, she is also a researcher in the Scientific Group on Immunization at the Quebec National Institute of Public Health.

Being a specialist of qualitative methods, her research focuses on the socio-cultural field surrounding infectious diseases prevention. She is particularly interested in vaccine hesitancy. She has led various projects in Quebec, Canada and in other countries to better understand why parents are hesitant toward vaccination and why some health professionals have doubts regarding vaccination. From 2012 to 2014, she was a member of the World Health Organization working group on Vaccine Hesitancy. Dr. Dubé is currently leading the Social Sciences and Humanities Network of the Canadian Immunization Research Network, funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. She is also interested in translational research and is leading projects on this issue, mainly around nosocomial infections prevention.

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