Alexandra “Lex” Bhatti, JD, MPH

Alexandra Bhatti is a public health attorney with diverse experience in vaccine programs and policy across government and private sectors. She is a US commercial leader at Merck, leading a team focused on vaccine confidence, equity, and public health, as well as a faculty member in the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University.

Previously, Bhatti led vaccine policy development and research as well as federal vaccine policy advocacy on Merck’s US Vaccine Policy and Partnerships team. Prior to working at Merck, she was a public health attorney at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she led vaccination law research. Her roots are in state public health; she was previously a manager in the Immunization Program Office at the Arizona Department of Health, as well as a senior public health scientist in the Arizona State Public Health Laboratory.

Bhatti earned her law degree magna cum laude from Arizona Summit Law School, a master’s degree in infectious diseases and microbiology from the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health, and a bachelor’s degree in molecular biosciences and biotechnology from Arizona State University.