ABOUT
About D-Health Consulting
I work with Market Access, Public Affairs, and Policy leaders at multinational healthcare companies to navigate the environments where policy, science, and business intersect - and where the right alliances, platforms, and strategies determine what actually gets done.
MISSION
My Mission
The most consequential decisions in healthcare rarely happen in a single room. They happen at the intersection of policy and industry, science and implementation, national priorities and global evidence. And they require people who can work credibly across all of it.
That is what D-Health Consulting was built to do.
I believe that the gap between what the healthcare system knows and what it actually does is largely a convening problem. The right stakeholders - policymakers, industry leaders, clinicians, patient advocates, academics, and NGOs - are often working on the same challenges in parallel, without the structures, platforms, or trusted intermediaries needed to align them. Closing that gap is the work.
For my clients, this means building the alliances and platforms that give their initiatives institutional credibility, crafting the strategies that translate intent into policy and market outcomes, and ensuring their voice carries weight in the rooms where decisions are made.
ABOUT ME
My Story
I'm Roberta Sarno, founder of D-Health Consulting and a strategic advisor to multinational healthcare companies navigating the intersection of health policy, market access, and institutional partnership.
My career spans three distinct worlds, and that breadth is the point. I began as a genetic engineering scientist at the Institut Curie in Paris, moved into healthcare consulting and business development across Europe, and spent several years as Digital Health Director at APACMed, the Asia-Pacific Medical Technology Association in Singapore, building and managing multi-stakeholder platforms across one of the world's most complex regional health ecosystems.
That trajectory, from bench science to commercial strategy to policy and institutional engagement, gives me something most advisors cannot offer: the ability to work credibly across disciplines, and to translate between the scientific, business, and policy communities that too rarely speak the same language.
I hold a PhD in Genetics and an MSc in Molecular Biology, a Business Foundation Certificate from INSEAD, and am currently completing a postgraduate programme in Global Health Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Fifteen years in the field. Four continents. Clients that include some of the world's leading pharmaceutical and medical technology companies.
D-Health Consulting now operates across Asia-Pacific and Europe, with a base in Paris.
On a more personal note: I have lived and worked in Italy, France, Germany, Singapore, and Qatar. That kind of mobility shapes how I see problems: less attachment to how things are done in one system, more curiosity about what actually works. It also means I am genuinely comfortable in rooms where no two people share the same institutional culture, which is often exactly the room my clients need me in.
If you are working on a challenge that sits at the intersection of policy, business, and science - and needs someone who can hold all three - get in touch at roberta.sarno@dhealth.consulting
ABOUT YOU
Who I serve
My clients are senior leaders at multinational pharmaceutical, diagnostics, and medical technology companies - typically working in Market Access, Public Affairs, Policy, or Government Affairs. I also work with healthcare NGOs, professional societies, and international health organisations that need to build institutional credibility and move complex agendas forward.
What they have in common is not their sector. It is their situation.
They are working on challenges that cannot be solved by one organisation alone. They need to bring together stakeholders - policymakers, clinicians, patient advocates, industry partners, academics - who have different incentives, different languages, and different definitions of success. They know that the quality of their strategy is only part of the equation. The other part is trust, credibility, and the ability to convene the right people around a shared agenda.
They are often navigating one or more of the following:
A market or policy environment where commercial positioning creates friction with the institutional stakeholders they need to influence.
A multi-stakeholder initiative that needs neutral, expert management to keep diverse parties aligned.
A high-stakes event - ministerial forum, advisory board, industry roundtable - that needs to produce outcomes, not just conversations.
A strategic challenge that sits at the intersection of policy, science, and business, and requires someone who can move fluently across all three.
This work is probably not the right fit if you are looking for a large agency with a broad team and a high volume of deliverables, if your priority is speed over strategic quality, or if your challenge is primarily technical or operational rather than strategic and relational.
The engagements that work best are ones where senior leadership is genuinely committed to the outcome, and where there is appetite for the kind of deep, trust-based working relationship that produces results over time.
Struggling to translate your objectives into issues that resonate with society? To foster strong, collaborative partnerships? Or to organise impactful healthcare events?
Book your free 30-minute consultation where we talk about you and your business - and explore whether my expertise can help you achieve your goals.