Scientific
and strategic
consulting

Oliba has extensive experience in developing and managing panels and advisory boards to support healthcare, pharma, and biotech companies.

The Oliba team identifies gaps and issues, guides the client, and provides effective strategies to enhance company performance, output, and success.

Oliba selects the board of patients or specialists most suited to drive the effective development and progress of products, campaigns, and projects.

To ensure the most effective and constructive panel or advisory board is selected, Oliba draws on a network of specialist contacts in a range of global healthcare and research settings, including:

Developing and managing healthcare, pharma, and biotech panels and advisory boards

Market research

Oliba provides strategic intelligence through analyses, forecasts, and research into emerging trends in healthcare, pharma, and biotech.

This intelligence enables clients to better understand research and technology trends, focus their investment, and uncover new opportunities to gain competitive advantage in a challenging market.

Oliba has developed its own proprietary tools and research approaches to support partners in these fast-moving and highly competitive areas.

Oliba market research services cover a range of settings, including primary, secondary and tertiary care, patients and caregivers, and research and academic institutions, in terms of:

Oliba liaises with advocacy groups to facilitate the involvement of patients and caregivers in healthcare research and decision-making.

Connecting with patient and caregiver associations early on in a project prevents access issues later in the development process.

The link between patients, caregivers, sponsors, and regulators generates value-based, sustainable protocols, and promotes end- user engagement.

Oliba acts as an intermediary between patients and caregivers and healthcare, pharma, and biotech organizations to ease collaboration, remove some of the organizational burden, saving clients time and tasks, and create an effective forum in which all voices are heard.

Patient and caregiver advocacy and engagement

Project case

NeReA | AstraZeneca

Oliba, together with AstraZeneca, designed the project NeReA – Severe Asthma Regional Network to bring together the main stakeholders of the Lazio Region to define and address the critical issues in the management of adult patients with severe asthma.

An effective care model comprising an integrated multidisciplinary path was proposed for these patients, including a particular focus on the impact on patient quality of life.

A logical, value-based approach was used to identify the unmet needs of adult patients with severe asthma in the Lazio Region, and the main characteristics of the dedicated structures present in the Region were defined according to the “hub and spoke” model.

Project case

Cystic Fibrosis | Viatris

Oliba organized a virtual European-wide roundtable discussion, in which people with cystic fibrosis were encouraged to share their experiences and insights into life with the disease in the presence of a clinical specialist moderator.

Oliba planned the administrative, logistic, and scientific aspects of the event, and prepared, managed, and supported the technology platform used for the meeting.

In addition, Oliba created an online survey for the participants and analyzed the data collected during the event.

The data and insights from the meeting were utilized to create a research letter for submission to a peer-reviewed journal.

Summary of Patient Advocates Discussion