Glenna Crooks PhD

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. She is also the founder of Best Edge. This is a company devoted to helping the highest-performing executive women stay in the game and confront the unique challenges they face as women working to solve health care problems and have satisfying personal lives.
Dr. Crooks' clients are businesses and governments globally and her Centricity Principle(TM) approach has been used to create successful organizational, national and global change strategies. Dr. Crooks derives her expertise from her professional history in senior positions in government as a Reagan appointee and as an executive in the bio-pharmaceutical industry. She has worked as a global problem-solver for more than twenty years.
Dr. Crooks was the first Vice-President for Worldwide Operations of Merck's newly created Vaccine Business, growing sales from $400 million to over $1 billion during the 1991-1994 formative years. Prior to that, she developed policy operations at Merck & Co., Inc. for markets globally and, during those "Most Admired Corporation" years, her policy group was recognized as the best in the Fortune 500.
Dr. Crooks 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.