Glenna Crooks, Ph.D.
Founder and President
Glenna Crooks, Ph.D., as founder and President of Strategic Health Policy International,
Inc. solves some of the toughest health care problems of our times by distilling chaos
and complexity into recognizable trends and patterns and easily digestible, action-
oriented insights.
Her clients are businesses and governments globally and her Centricity Principle™
approach has been used to create successful organizational, national and global
strategies to improve health and health care. She is recognized as one of the top facilitators in health care and her Strategic Facilitation™ method has resolved conflicts, created high-leverage solutions and enhanced team performance and meeting outcomes.
She is also the founder of Best Edge, a company devoted to helping the highest-performing executives stay in the game and confront the unique challenges they face as leaders working to solve health care problems.
She derives her expertise from interdisciplinary doctoral studies and experience in the public, not-for-profit and private sectors. She held the senior health policy advisor position as a presidential appointee in government. She developed global public policy operations at Merck & Co., Inc. and during those Most Admired Corporation years, her policy group was recognized as the best in the Fortune 500. As global vice-president she tripled vaccine sales in less than three years.
She has lead marketing operations, strategic planning and joint venture relationships globally and continues to be involved in research ethics, regulatory approval strategy, product pricing, government purchasing planning, patient advocacy, professional relations and public relations in a number of drug and vaccine product categories. She has been involved in more than a dozen product launches and specializes in those products likely to be priced high or to encounter controversy in the payer and user markets.
Glenna devotes her time to academic, professional, and philanthropic endeavors as well. She is adjunct professor in health policy at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, a Fellow of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Neuroscience and Society and a Senior Fellow of the Thomas Jefferson University School of Population Health.
She is Founder and Chairman of Causeway Collective, and a member of the David A. Winston Health Policy Fellowship Board. She served on the Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative Board of Scientific Councilors and was a member of the Institute of Medicine study committee to advise the department of defense on development of bioterrorism/biowarfare countermeasures.
She was founding Vice-Chair of the Partnership for Prevention, a member of the National Council of the Institute for Child Health and Human Development, Chairman of the National Commission on Rare Diseases, and received the Congressional Exemplary Service Award for Orphan Products Development. She is a recipient of the highest award in public health, the Surgeon General’s Medallion and was also named a Disruptive Woman in Health Care for the positive solutions to health care problems she has developed in her career.
Dr. Crooks' blog can be read at http://www.disruptivewomen.net/author/gcrooks. This site encourages
provocative ideas, thoughts, and solutions in the health sphere from women recognized as leaders.
She is the author of Covenants: Inspiring the Soul of Healing, and is a frequent keynote speaker at national and international conferences.