Biography

Katerina Rok Song is a research scientist in International Vaccine Institute (IVI). She graduated a medical school in Seoul, Korea, completed residency in Obstetrics & Gynecology, subspecialized in Obstetrics through fellowship. She began her career in vaccines at a pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), where she worked for nine years, initially focused on HPV vaccine. She later expanded her responsibilities to cover all vaccines as the Vaccine Medical Director at GSK Korea. She moved on to a public sector, Korea Disease Control Agency and worked in the department of national immunization program (NIP) and vaccine preventable diseases (VPD) as an epidemic intelligence service (EIS) officer/VPD team manager. Now Katerina is working in IVI, leading clinical trials as a project lead for the trials on cholera vaccines, a Hepatitis E vaccine and COVID-19 vaccines.