Paula Underhill PPD
Paula has over 30 years clinical research operational and senior management experience: +25yrs in the NHS, 5 years leading Global Clinical Engagement at TriNetX and, since 2022, as Senior Director and Head of Strategic Site Collaborations, at PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific. With a passion for driving site-patient centric strategies and transformational change to facilitate innovative delivery and expansion of the PPD Select Global Partnership Program; nurturing holistic relationships across multiple stakeholders.
Paula is a proactive advocator for sites and patients, empowering global health equity, to deliver the right studies for the right patients to meet site, sponsor and population needs; strengthening site engagement, collaboration, integration and harmonisation of site enablement solutions and RWD platforms to optimise site identification, selection, acceleration and study delivery.
Paula leads on an agile approach for harmonised and integrated vendor and platform solutions to reduce site burden, drive adoption, and leverage partners for improving efficiencies and delivery across study pathways.