Julie Bettinger

Dr. Julie Bettinger is a vaccine safety scientist at the Vaccine Evaluation Center, a leading center for applied vaccine research in Canada. Her research interests include vaccine safety and vaccine preventable diseases, as well as attitudes and beliefs around immunization uptake and use.

She is also the epidemiologist for the Immunization Monitoring Program, Active, a national surveillance system for vaccine preventable diseases and vaccine adverse events in 12 pediatric tertiary care centers across Canada. Dr. Bettinger leads CIRN’s Canadian National Vaccine Safety network: cirnetwork.ca/network/national-ambulatory-network/ monitoring the safety of influenza vaccines in Canada.