Kristen Cribbs is a director with Manatt Health in the New York office working across life sciences, health care strategy, market access, health economics and outcomes research (HEOR), and evidence generation for life sciences, biotechnology and health care organizations. She brings more than 15 years of experience helping health care and life sciences organizations translate complex data into actionable insights that drive business strategy, market access and growth.

Kristen has managed global market access and HEOR initiatives, including real-world evidence strategies, economic modeling, stakeholder engagement and payor communications and served as a trusted adviser to organizational leadership on operational strategy, business growth and performance management. She also led high-impact engagements across a wide range of therapeutic areas, including oncology, immunology and rare disease, guiding clients through evidence development, payor engagement, reimbursement strategy and commercialization planning.

Most recently, Kristen served as vice president at a health care and life sciences consulting firm, where she led a life sciences portfolio, advising pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical technology and diagnostics companies on market access, evidence generation and value demonstration strategies. She currently serves as a Research Ethics Advisor for the City University of New York School of Public Health, providing oversight and guidance on human subjects research, and has been a steering committee member of EmergingAging NYC for more than a decade.