Sadie Whittaker, PhD

Chief External Affairs Officer

Sadie Whittaker has over 17 years of experience in the biopharma industry in leadership roles across clinical development and medical affairs. Sadie spent over 10 years at Amgen, where she was instrumental in establishing the company’s first medical affairs engagement strategy for biosimilars. For the past six years, Sadie has run her own strategic consulting practice focused on communications, medical affairs, and external engagement, serving clients across the healthcare ecosystem, from small start-ups and large biopharma, to government and non-profit entities. Sadie is a firm believer in the power of collaboration to improve public and population health. She has forged several highly successful, multi-year, public-private partnerships on major communicable and non-communicable health issues including cardiovascular disease, cancer, and Ebola. Sadie received her PhD in molecular biology from the University of Birmingham in the UK, and her Bachelor of Science in biochemistry from the University of Leeds in the UK.

Sadie likes to run and do yoga, and loves to explore new places in the US and beyond with her husband and 8-year-old son.