CHPA’s Barbara Kochanowski receives Regulatory & Scientific Affairs Career Achievement Award

The Consumer Healthcare Products Association congratulates its senior vice president of regulatory & scientific affairs, Barbara Kochanowski, for recently receiving the association’s Regulatory & Scientific Affairs Career Achievement Award during its annual Self-Care Leadership Summit held in March in Orlando, Fla.

After nearly four decades in the consumer healthcare industry—14 years at CHPA and 23 years at The Procter & Gamble Company—Kochanowski’s retirement was announced at SLS’s Opening Session on March 20, where she received a standing ovation for her outstanding contributions to self-care from more than 300 industry leaders.

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CHPA’s Regulatory & Scientific Affairs Career Achievement Award was established in 2022 to recognize individuals who have created a long-lasting impact supporting public health via self-care for at least 20 years. These individuals have applied their expertise in many ways; for example, to enable new products and technologies, to help shape a constructive regulatory environment or to develop new research techniques. They are recognized across the industry as leaders who have devoted time to recruiting, training and mentoring future experts. This year’s award was presented to Kochanowski by CHPA president and CEO Scott Melville, Haleon’s vice president of U.S. regulatory affairs, and Lauren Quinn, chair of CHPA’s Regulatory & Scientific Affairs committee.

“I want to express my sincere congratulations and gratitude to Barb, the leader of our Regulatory & Scientific Affairs department for the last 14 years,” said Melville. “As someone who has the pleasure of working with Barb on a daily basis, I am in constant awe of her intelligence, her organization, her calmness, her humanity, and her commitment to this industry. She has been at the forefront of every major regulatory issue for the last few decades, and her imprint on CHPA and our entire industry will most certainly endure. It was an honor to recently present Barb with this esteemed award and congratulate her on a well-deserved retirement following her nearly four decades of exceptional service and contributions to consumer healthcare.”

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 Kochanowski is the third recipient of CHPA’s Regulatory & Scientific Affairs Career Achievement Award since its establishment in 2022.