Ann-Lise works toward improving access to medicines, health products, and quality care in low-and middle-income countries, with a current focus on NCDs/oncology and rare diseases. She is also playing a leading role on policies at the nexus of climate change and health.
She supports advocacy and policy development on these topics as well as strategic engagement with key international stakeholders, including WHO, international organizations, private sector companies, and civil society organizations.
Prior to joining IFPMA, Ann-Lise worked with the Public Affairs team of Sanofi Global Health, where she promoted the value of Sanofi Global Health’s portfolio in relation to NCDs, tuberculosis, malaria, and anti-microbial resistance.
Ann-Lise is a hospital pharmacist by training who subsequently had a broad range of professional experiences in market access, medical affairs, and health economics at MSD France and the French Health Technology Assessment Agency (Haute Autorité de Santé), and clinical experiences in the University Hospitals of Bordeaux and Toulouse in France.
Ann-Lise has a PharmD degree with a specialization in Hospital Pharmacy from the University Paul Sabatier of Toulouse), with complementary diplomas in health economics from the School of Public Health of Bordeaux, statistics for medical trials from Pierre and Marie Curie University of Paris, and climate change and economic governance from the London School of Economics.
Working at IFPMA allows me to interact with incredibly skilled and expert colleagues, members, and external stakeholders. Its status offers the opportunity to collaborate with a wide range of key global health actors, whose shared objectives foster constructive cross-sectoral agendas.
More from Ann-Lise
Dialogue on global diabetes care with James Anderson: What is needed as we mark another World Diabetes Day?
For World Diabetes Day on 14 November, Ann-Lise Mikolajczak, Associate Manager, Value and Access and James Anderson, Executive Director of Global Health, sat down to discuss global diabetes care. This Q&A was developed in collaboration with HYPER Network, a platform for young industry professionals.
Read moreNew collaboration to improve access to quality cancer management in LMICs
This blog was originally published on 28 June by Media Planet in Global Cause and as a supplement to The Guardian. There is a huge gap in cancer mortality rates between high and lower-resource settings, with 70% of global cancer deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The gap in cancer mortality rates is...
Read moreRenewing industry’s commitment to better access to diabetes care on World Diabetes Day
This World Diabetes Day (WDD), IFPMA and its members are renewing our commitment to take proactive steps to improve access to diabetes care and make progress toward the achievement of SDG target 3.4.
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