Prior to joining Sanofi Pasteur in 2004, Alena completed Epidemic Intelligence Service at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Immunization Safety Branch. She also worked as a medical epidemiologist on STDs, HIV/AIDS and Multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Moscow, Russia. Alena is trained as Internal Medicine physician in Belarus (MD degree from Gomel State Medical University).
Her current area of interest is in advanced epidemiologic methods used in vaccine safety, novel data sources and quantitative benefit-risk assessment of vaccines.