Laura Martin, PhD is the Vaccines Program Director, Global Health Technical Programs at the United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP). Dr. Martin brings more than 20 years of increasing scientific and leadership responsibilities for the end-to-end development of vaccines of poverty-related disease in industry, government and academia, and a passion for global health.

In her role at USP, Dr. Martin leads the development and implementation of USP’s Global Health vaccine strategy to ensure access to quality-assured essential medical products.  Previously, Dr. Martin was responsible for portfolios of candidate vaccine projects including those combatting antimicrobial resistant bacteria and malaria.