Ensuring patient access and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) may be at the core of pharma’s current corporate policies, but MSD India managing director Rehan Khan was exposed to those values way back in his younger days.
Profile: MSD India Chief On DEI Values, Keytruda And 'Drinking From The Firehose'
MSD India managing director Rehan Khan shares with Scrip glimpses of his life and professional journey, including diversity, equity and inclusion values imbibed in his childhood, co-founding an early-stage venture fund, widening access to Keytruda to roughly “six times more patients” in the country and initiatives around HPV vaccination.

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