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Health & Life Sciences

Helping companies and governments navigate complex policy, regulatory, and stakeholder environments to improve health outcomes and accelerate innovation.

Empowering health innovation for better outcomes.

We help health and life sciences organisations drive innovation by shaping policies, expanding market access, and creating partnerships that improve patient outcomes and deliver long-term societal benefits.

Our team works effectively across borders and institutions, delivering results that support business goals and strengthen health systems. Our experts have experience from the US Department of State, FDA, APEC, international organisations like the WHO, multilateral development banks, and health ministries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa.

We combine policy knowledge with strong stakeholder relationships to achieve lasting impact.

Our Focus Areas

  • Digital Health & AI
  • Rare Diseases & Advanced Therapies
  • Life-Course Immunisation
  • Women’s Health
  • Health Financing & Systems Reform
  • Health Technology and Value Assessment
  • Managed Entry Agreements and Market Access Strategy
  • Genomics & Precision Medicine
  • Supply Chain Resilience
  • Pandemic Preparedness
  • Climate & Health
  • Regulatory
  • Health Workforce
Our expertise

Our health and life sciences capabilities

We help clients navigate complex policy, regulatory, and stakeholder landscapes to accelerate access, strengthen health systems, and align business objectives with public health priorities.

Market Shaping

We help clients build product, therapeutic area, and issue awareness, develop stakeholder coalitions, and shape regulatory and policy environments to enable innovation, speed approvals, and expand access across regions.

Regulatory Strategy

Our team promotes regulatory convergence and alignment to reduce fragmentation and accelerate access to therapies. We support clients in navigating diverse health systems and regulatory frameworks across global markets. We support health system strengthening for more systematic, transparent, and equitable priority setting and resource allocation processes.

Reputation Transformation

We design forward-thinking messaging, and engagement plans that position companies as trusted partners in addressing public health challenges. Our goal is to help clients align with public priorities while defending core business objectives.

Stakeholder Engagement

We support clients in building meaningful relationships with key decision-makers at national and regional levels. By understanding the local policy landscape and identifying the right points of engagement, we help clients gain credibility and drive policy change.

Coalitions & Partnerships

We form and manage strategic coalitions and partnerships that amplify your voice and drive aligned policy changes. By bringing together key stakeholders from government, industry, and civil society, we ensure your interests are effectively represented, reducing risk and maximising impact.

Multilateral & International Engagement

We support clients in shaping global health agendas by engaging effectively with multilateral organisations and platforms such as WHO, APEC, and other UN organisations, as well as multilateral development banks. We build coalitions, cultivate champions, and design campaigns that lead to meaningful policy outcomes.

Our work

Case studies

See how we’ve helped organisations deliver meaningful health outcomes and drive innovation worldwide.

Advancing life-course immunisation in the Asia-Pacific
A coalition of global vaccine manufacturers sought Access Partnership’s support to overcome persistent policy barriers to adult vaccination in the Asia Pacific, calling for a regional action plan and data to track progress.
Bringing RSV innovation to the Asia-Pacific
A global pharmaceutical company turned to Access Partnership to position RSV prevention as a regional priority in Asia-Pacific and support market access in the region for their pioneering treatment.
Strengthening regional regulatory convergence
A leading biopharmaceutical company partnered with Access Partnership to drive regulatory convergence across Asia-Pacific, reducing inefficiencies and delays to support smoother market access.
Our expertise

Meet our experts

Our team combines global expertise across health systems, innovation, and strategic partnerships to improve health outcomes.

Patricia Wu
Leadership, Health & Life Sciences, Trade
Ryan MacFarlane
Health & Life Sciences, Trade
Héctor Castro
Health & Life Sciences
Eric Obscherning
Health & Life Sciences
Olivia Burzynska-Hernandez
Health & Life Sciences
Viviana Angel
Health & Life Sciences
Megan Rauscher
Health & Life Sciences
Johan Marulanda
Health & Life Sciences

 

 

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