Biography

 

Alex Kong

Alex Kong

  • Alumni
  • United States
  • 2016 MPhil Biological Science (Pharmacology)
  • Churchill College

Being a Gates Scholar has been one of the defining moments of my life so far, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to remain engaged as Co-Chair of the Gates Cambridge Alumni Association. After earning my MPhil in Pharmacology, I completed my PharmD at the University of Kansas and made a critical decision to switch fields from the pharmaceutical sciences to global health. For two years, I worked at the Access to Medicine Foundation, a global health non-profit based in Amsterdam that assesses the policies, commitments, and actions of some of the largest global pharmaceutical companies in ensuring access to medicine for patients in low- and middle-income countries. My role as the R&D lead on the Access to Medicine Index involved dissecting the pipelines of 20 pharmaceutical companies and challenging companies to ensure that these projects were available as quickly and broadly as possible through systematic and advance access planning during clinical development. I am currently a PhD Candidate in International Health at Johns Hopkins University with the goal of advancing access to innovative health technologies.

Previous Education

University of Kansas

Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-kong-4415b76b