Global Health Consulting

Are you responding to a RFP for a healthcare consultancy that involves improving access and efficiency to essential medicines, policy review or public-private partnerships in global health?  If so, you know how difficult it can be to pull together a team that has the talents needed to satisfy the demands of a donor organization that wants to ensure that its investment is both actionable and sustainable.  Because these projects can be difficult to manage, it’s important that your team leader is resourceful, competent and able to course correct along the way.

Ron Marrocco has led consulting projects aimed at improving efficiencies in healthcare systems, supply chain management and capacity building.  In working with ministries of health, donor organizations, clinicians, healthcare workers and NGOs his teams have developed consensus and offered recommendations that improve care, access and efficiency.  You may wish to consider his experience for roles in;

Recent Publications:

• Making the case for entering a developing healthcare market, Journal of Medical Marketing, Device, Diagnostic and Pharmaceutical Marketing, April 2005, Vol. 5, No. 2
• Driving Adoption of Medical Device Innovation in Europe, Medical Executive (MX), July/August 2004
• Justifying Entry into a Developing Market,
  Medical Device Executive (MX), September/October 2004

Global Health & Medical Technology

The need for cost effective, appropriate medical technology in global health goes beyond one country or one region, it is needed in every developing country and on every continent.  Once the product is nearly developed, it’s time to create a plan of action for production and marketing – but first you need to know who will buy it and what the demand will be in each geographic region. 

Forecasting the demand for medical innovations to developing countries requires inputs from health ministries, donor organizations and other stakeholders in the medical products supply chain. 

Our approach is to provide product combinations that satisfy the needs of a population based on the burden of disease in each country and the priorities of that country that equate to policy and political will.  These product combinations are then aggregated by product, forecasted and built into the budget cycle that involves donors as well as local funding. 

Together we can develop a marketing plan that scopes the opportunity for your innovation and prioritizes markets and activities based on the sociopolitical and healthcare climate.   This pilot initiative by Global Health & Medical Technology is a collaborative effort between academic institutions, local officials and other stakeholders.  We welcome your partnership as we seek to change the way healthcare is delivered in some of the world’s lowest resource settings.

Projects of Particular Interest:

• Improving Access to Essential Medicines
• Supply of appropriate, cost-effective medical technology to low-resource settings
• Bringing transparency to business-government relations in healthcare
• Ensuring win-win relationships in healthcare systems; providers, their governments and public-private partnerships