Dr. Leopold is an Assistant Professor at the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology at Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Science / WHO Collaborating Centre for Pharmaceutical Policy and Regulation. Her main research focus is evaluating pharmaceutical policies along the product life cycle to assess strategies to improve affordable access to medicines. From 2014 to 2018, Dr. Leopold was a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. She has also worked as a senior researcher at the Austrian Public Health Institute, Department of Health Economics / WHO Collaborating Center for Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies, where she co-led the Austrian Centre for Rare Diseases, as well as the European Network of public authorities of Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Information (PPRI). She holds a doctorate in Pharmaceutical Policy from Utrecht University, a Master of International Health Care Management, Economics and Politics from Bocconi University (Italy) and a Master of International Business Relations from the University of Applied Science (Austria).