Taking a proactive and holistic approach to diversity assessment and planning

Ashmee Bharadia, Vice President, Accellacare In-Home Services

Ashmee Bharadia started her career in progressive roles from CRA to project management across Sanofi Aventis, Schering Plough, Novartis and Amgen covering respiratory, immunology, infectious disease, dermatology and neurology.

In 2016, Ashmee held a leadership position with a small CRO focused on developing the project management group and gained experience working with innovative startup and biotech companies. Ashmee also established a new group focused on strategic business optimisation, technology implementation and global process improvements working with the corporate and operational leadership.

Ashmee holds qualifications in Lean Six Sigma and Change Management, and a BSc (Hons) in pharmaceutical chemistry from Queen Mary, University of London.

Susan Campbell, Senior Director, Patient Recruitment Services, ICON

Susan Campbell is the Global Head of Patient Recruitment at ICON, where she is a senior leader in Patient Recruitment Services team. Susan has 25+ years’ experience in the clinical research industry with the majority of her time focused on patient recruitment & retention strategy development and operationalising global campaigns. She is passionate about bringing clinical research to patients as a care option and believes study participants are truly research heroes. In addition, Susan is focused on driving innovation and equity in clinical studies.

Tinaya Gray, Executive Director, Project Delivery, ICON

Tinaya Gray has 25+ years of clinical research experience, primarily at CROs within operations delivery, with the last 17 at ICON. During this tenure Tinaya primarily lead portfolios in hematology and oncology and later as an executive director responsible for project delivery within the biotech unit. Tinaya has community health equity experience that spans 3 decades of community work mostly focused on anti-poverty, racial, and justice reform. In her current role as Global Head of Diversity in Clinical Trials, Tinaya is the architect and leader of ICON’s end-to-end Diversity in Clinical Trials Solutions, accountable for the development of ICON’s strategic and operational capability for seamless delivery of inclusive trials and achievement of representative population data.