Inez Naidu is the Managing Executive of the Medicines Unit at Discovery Health. She is a pharmacist with a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree and a Master’s in Clinical Hospital Pharmacy degree from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, South Africa and has ~30 years of healthcare industry experience – predominantly in managed healthcare pharmacy administration. Her work experience includes the pharmacy retail sector, academia, several managed healthcare organisations, Private Healthcare Information Standards Committee (PHISC) and the National Department of Health (NDoH) pricing committee.  

Inez’s role at Discovery Health involves managed healthcare pharmacy strategy and risk management impacting medicine benefit design, budgets, new business innovation, pharmacy network contracting, data profiling, regulatory pharmacy and negotiated access strategies for high-cost and novelty medicines. She works closely with healthcare industry stakeholders including the pharmaceutical industry, pharmacies, clinician societies and the South African National Department of Health in the drive towards more affordable medicine access.