Director Science Policy, European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations
Dr Kirsty Reid is Director of Science Policy at the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA). She holds a PhD in Ethnopharmacognosy (2003) from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. For the past 18 years she has worked extensively on research and on EU public and regulatory affairs. She leads work on alternatives to animal testing, environment, health, safety and sustainability issues. She sits on the advisory boards of the European Horizon Europe Project Transpharm and the PharGTrans project, funded through the Research Council of Finland. She is the EFPIA representative in the European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to animal testing (EPAA), EFPIA representative as the accredited stakeholder to the ECHA and the EFPIA liaison on environment and chemical dossiers to the European Medicines Agency. She has a number of published papers across these topics.