Salah Foraida, MD, MS joined TB Alliance in February 2021 as Senior Director and Head of Medical Affairs. In this role, Dr. Foraida collaborates across the organization to define the medical affairs strategy for public health agencies, commercial partners, the medical community, key opinion leaders and other stakeholders to bring TB Alliance approved regimens to patients, and to provide expert scientific advice and information to external parties. He also contributes to the strategy of new regimens, and to the overall scientific and post-approval strategy.
Dr. Foraida is a physician with 19 years of combined experience in clinical practice and leadership roles at multiple pharmaceutical corporates including Novo Nordisk, Sanofi, Shire, and most recently Takeda. Over his pharma career, he led medical affairs strategy, teams, functions, portfolio planning, launch readiness, peri-launch activities and life cycle management of several compounds across multiple therapeutic areas, including Infectious Diseases, Vaccines, Diabetes, Cardiovascular, Neuroscience and Psychiatry.
Dr Foraida earned his Medical Degree from Cairo University, and a Master of Science in Emerging Infectious Diseases from Georgetown University in Washington DC.