Alexandra Bhatti is a public health attorney with extensive experience in vaccine programs, policy, and research across both government and private sectors. Currently, she is a US commercial leader at Merck, leading a team dedicated to vaccine confidence, equity, and public health. She is also a faculty member in the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University. Bhatti serves on the Board of Directors of ChangeLab Solutions, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that uses the tools of law and policy to advance health equity and is actively involved in the American Public Health Association, leading their Law Section.
Previously, Bhatti led vaccine policy development and research as well as federal vaccine policy advocacy on Merck’s US Vaccine Policy and Partnerships team. Before joining Merck, Bhatti was a public health attorney at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she led vaccination policy research and other cross-cutting health policy programs, including one focused on supporting employers and payers. Her roots however, are in state public health; where she previously was a manager in the Immunization Program Office at the Arizona Department of Health, as well as a senior public health scientist in the Arizona State Public Health Laboratory.