Dr Nikki Kitikiti, MD MPH FAMS is Vaccines Policy Lead for Growth & Emerging Markets at Takeda based in Singapore. The Growth & Emerging Markets portfolio includes over 50 geographies in Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East.  Her current work focuses on partnering policy and community stakeholders to support access to vaccines and their effective integration into public health programmes fighting neglected tropical diseases such as Dengue and Zika. Dr Kitikiti is a medical doctor and specialist Public Health Physician trained in Singapore. She is an Associate Visiting Expert at the Centre of Regulatory Excellence (CoRE) at Duke-NUS Medical School where she was involved in establishing the Coalition to Accelerate Patient Engagement in Asia-Pacific (CAPE), which is a regional multi-stakeholder initiative to advance meaningful and systematic patient involvement in health products development and all areas of the health system. She was also a founding member of the SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute (SDGHI) Policy Core where she helped to establish the key focus areas for research and stakeholder engagement. Dr Kitikiti has a diverse range of health system experience including roles in clinical practice, government health agencies, hospital administration and has worked as a frontline health professional during the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore.