Dr. Rosa Castro is the Senior Scientific Policy Officer at the Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM), where she oversees FEAM’s core policy activities with its Member Academies. Dr. Castro specialises in health policy and law and has carried out research and managed projects in areas at the intersection of science and health policy, including on intellectual property law and access to medicines. She holds a PhD and Master in Law and Economics, and an MA in Bioethics and Science Policy. Before joining FEAM, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the European University Institute (EUI), and at Duke University (USA), Senior Policy Advisor at a Brussels consultancy and lecturer of Intellectual Property Law and International Health Law at the University of Bologna and LUISS University (Rome).