Josette Gbemudu is the executive director of health equity for MSD. Josette leads MSD’s U.S. health equity division, helping to ensure a focus on health equity is embedded across the organization. Collaborating with key business functions, she develops and leads the execution of a unified health equity strategy. With more than 10 years of experience at MSD, Josette has led private sector contracting in the company’s U.S. vaccines organization, scientific strategy for its anesthesia and surgery marketing franchise, and played an instrumental role in building its U.S. commercial strategy.