Robert Popovian | Chief Science Policy Officer
Global Healthy Living Foundation

Dr. Robert Popovian is the Founder of the strategic consulting firm Conquest Advisors. He also serves as Chief Science Policy Officer at the Global Healthy Living Foundation, Senior Healthy Policy Fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, and Visiting Health Policy Fellow at the Pioneer Institute. He previously served as Vice President, U.S. Government Relations at Pfizer. One of the country’s foremost experts on every significant facet of biopharmaceuticals and the healthcare industry, he is a recognized authority on health economics, policy, government relations, medical affairs, and strategic planning. Dr. Popovian has published extensively and referenced on the impact of biopharmaceuticals and health policies on costs and clinical outcomes in the most prominent medical sources and media publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Clinical Economics and Outcomes Research, The Oncologist, Journal of Vaccines and Vaccinations, Journal of American Pharmacists Association, Journal of Health Economics and Outcomes Research, USA Today, Washington Examiner, Managed Healthcare Executive, and The Hill. He is also a sought-after speaker and has been invited to provide detailed presentations, briefings, and expert reviews for the U.S. Congress and dozens of state legislatures, as well as at conferences and medical symposiums throughout the country and worldwide. Dr. Popovian is one of the select few researchers to study and publish clinical and policy-related economic analysis and empirical data regarding emerging payment models in the U.S. healthcare system and for biopharmaceutical reimbursement. His insight and analysis also led to one of the first inclusions of health outcomes data in a labeled indication of a biopharmaceutical. Dr. Popovian is Chairman of the Board of Councilors at the University of Southern California School of Pharmacy, an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at Rutgers School of Pharmacy, and an advisor to the Value of Life Sciences Innovation program at the Schaeffer Institute. Dr. Popovian completed his Doctorate in Pharmacy and Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy degrees with honors at the University of Southern California. He has also completed a residency in Pharmacy Practice/Adult Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the Los Angeles County-USC Hospital and a fellowship in Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy at USC.