About the IAPP

Sara Levine advises clients on privacy and data protection, access to information, health research, and health professions, and risk management. Sara has many years of experience conducting privacy assessments, developing and implementing policies, compliance programs and training, and advising on service agreements, data sharing arrangements, consent requirements, employee privacy, surveillance, and access. Sara spent her early days in Ontario as a civil litigator, before turning her focus to health and privacy law. She has extensive experience working closely with large professional associations, leading health research entities, professional regulatory bodies, medical clinics, hospitals, health information start-ups, large manufacturers, railways, local government and public bodies.  Sara has made many written and oral submissions to legislative committees on privacy and health legislation, co-authored a leading privacy text, and spoken at numerous conferences over the years. She has served on a number of volunteer boards and committees throughout her career and is currently the Chair of the Metro Vancouver Transit Police Board. She got her undergraduate degree from UBC and her law degree from Queen’s University, and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2014.