Kevin D. Sauvé, BSc, MJ
With more than a decade of experience in knowledge translation and mobilization, science writing, communications, and journalism, particularly focused on life science and health care, Kevin Sauvé has worked as a knowledge broker and communications advisor to some of Canada’s most influential scientists and researchers. He is currently Manager of the Knowledge Translation (KT) program at Michael Smith Health Research BC, where he is key contributor to the development, implementation, and evaluation of its KT strategy. He advises the KT Director in support of Health Research BC’s vision and mission as it relates to KT, manages its Coordinator and is responsible for providing KT mentorship internally and externally to its various networks of KT professionals and funded researchers and reviewers. Prior, Kevin built and headed a KT and Communications team at Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre at the BC Cancer Research Institute and was responsible for managing the development and delivery of strategies and materials to help the GSC synthesize and disseminate its research to the scientific community and beyond. Kevin has also worked as a writer and producer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and as a freelance journalist. He holds a Master of Journalism from the University of British Columbia, concentrated on science, and a Bachelor in Biological Science from the University of Guelph, focused on neuroscience. He is a CBC Joan Donaldson Scholar and the recipient of a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)–Health Research Communications Award. He is grateful to reside as an uninvited settler on the beautiful, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, in the city otherwise known as Vancouver, British Columbia.
Kevin teaches in the Research Management and Coordination Certificate.