Rabab Khodary has been health economics and market access manager for hemato-oncology at Janssen Pharmaceuticals of Johnson and Johnson since May 2021.
During her time in the role, she has helped to accelerate patients’ access to innovative products through operational processes in the public sector and by analyzing business challenges and opportunities within the Saudi healthcare sector.
She joined GlaxoSmithKline in 2015 as a future leader management trainee and held the position of associate market access and pricing manager from 2017 until 2021.
In 2017, while working for GSK, she received a bronze award in a global employee recognition program, following that up with a silver award in 2019, after heading a women’s leadership initiative and project leading the business development, communications, health, and well-being departments.
From 2013 to 2014, she was Batterjee Medical College’s head of clinical skills, a department she established with the Jeddah-based institution’s head of medicine.
Khodary gained a bachelor’s degree in medical technology from King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah in 2006, and a master’s degree in cell and molecular biology from San Francisco State University in 2012. She was also a researcher for a cell and molecular biology lab in California, and for King Fahd Medical Research Center in Jeddah.
Between 2006 and 2007, she worked on cytogenetics, molecular genetics, and tissue typing in a Saudi blood bank laboratory. She has obtained a number of professional certifications, including in health economics policy, and a negotiation program from The London School of Economics and Political Science.
