Your partner through complexity

Speyside Health is the healthcare consulting practice of Speyside Group: a senior-led advisory firm helping pharmaceutical and biotech companies succeed in complex, international markets. A central core team leads every engagement, integrating medical affairs, policy and government affairs, communications and market access, and works through a strong local footprint in 40+ countries to turn strategy into real, measurable change for clients on the ground.

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WHO WE ARE & HOW WE OPERATE

What makes Speyside different from other healthcare consulting firms?

Speyside was built the other way

Most global consultancies still work in a global-to-regional cascade: strategy is built at headquarters and rolled out through fly-in support. Even within a single consultancy, the individual pieces, policy, medical affairs, communications, access, are too often handled ad hoc, without a unifying thread, leaving clients in international markets to stitch the work together themselves. Speyside was built the other way. A central core team holds one strategic thread across every milestone of the product lifecycle, so the work stays cohesive as it moves into each market, and is delivered more coherently for the client.

Clients access market intelligence through extended networks of vetted in-market consultants and key experts, from clinical to communications, from access to political context. And we report on outcomes, not activity metrics.

Behind that sits a core team with two decades of experience, across the full product lifecycle, from early market prioritization through launch to post-launch implementation, and across every stakeholder that shapes a healthcare decision: clinical and scientific communities, payers and health-technology bodies, regulators and ministries, and patient organisations.

The four pillars are designed to work as one integrated offer, but each is also delivered independently. Clients engage the whole model or a single capability, whichever fits the mandate, so we support single-service and integrated buyers alike.

40+

Countries with local teams

~20

Years of healthcare expertise

Capability pillars, integrated or standalone

Regions

Europe

APAC

Africa

LATAM

Middle East

OUR OFFERING

Four pillars, one strategic thread

Medical Affairs-led strategy that connects evidence, stakeholder dynamics, policy timing, access realities and implementation constraints in complex markets.

Medical Affairs

Medical affairs consulting helps pharmaceutical and biotech companies turn scientific evidence into clinical impact.

Policy, Regulatory & Government Affairs

Healthcare policy and government affairs consulting helps life-sciences companies navigate political landscapes, shape policy environments and engage health authorities.

Communications & Strategic Positioning

Healthcare communications consulting builds reputation and positions our clients as credible partners in the progress of science and the improvement of patient outcomes.

Market Access & Commercial Strategy

Market access consulting positions products for reimbursement and sustainable commercial success.

GLOBAL FOOTPRINT

Local teams across 40+ countries

Speyside Health has local teams across more than 40 countries, organised in five regional platforms:

Europe & Eurasia

in Central & Eastern Europe since the mid-1990s; operational across 19 countries spanning the EU5, CEE, Russia and Eurasia.

EU5

CEE

Russia

Eurasia

19 countries

East Asia

Regional hubs in India and Singapore, with team members on the ground in fifteen countries from China to Australia.

India

Singapore

China

Australia

15 countries

Latin America

Offices in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, supported by consultants and affiliates across Central & South America and the Caribbean.

Brazil

Mexico

Colombia

Caribbean

Middle East

Led from Saudi Arabia with capability across all GCC markets, serving public and private sector clients.

Saudi Arabia

GCC

Africa

Overseen from hub offices in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria, with reach across the continent.

South Africa

Kenya

Nigeria

CORE TEAM

Our core team

Senior people, named and accountable, clients work with the people on this page, supported by an extended network of vetted in-market consultants and key experts across 40+ countries.

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Ian Herbison

CEO & Head of Healthcare

Over the last 25 years Ian has led international policy programs for many leading healthcare multinationals. During this time, he has lived, built and managed teams across Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific. In recent years he has focused on global & regional counsel to set policy strategy and frameworks.

Simonetta Ballali

Deputy Head of Healthcare, Medical Affairs Director

Connects stakeholder-specific streams into a strategic thread that drives change in clinical practice. Joined from IQVIA, where she led the Medical Affairs Communications Practice.

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Dr Julieta Villega

LATAM Healthcare Practice Lead

Medical doctor and clinical epidemiologist with over 12 years of experience in health policy and healthcare strategy across Latin America.

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Danielle Todesco

Senior Consultant, Healthcare Practice

Public policy specialist with 5+ years across ASEAN, leading health-policy projects and advocacy for multinational clients.

THERAPEUTIC AREAS

Therapeutic areas: where we go deep

We work across the therapeutic landscape, with documented depth in the areas below. Each groups the specific conditions our teams have delivered on:

Rare diseases

spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and gene therapies, pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), haemophilia.

Oncology

lung, breast, prostate, melanoma, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC / liver), and cell & gene therapies.

Immunology

Non-communicable diseases

cardiovascular disease and lipid management, ischemic stroke, diabetes and cardiorenal, chronic kidney disease (CKD), COPD and respiratory.

Women's health

maternal and neonatal health.

Infectious diseases

HIV & viral hepatitis, vaccines (RSV, COVID-19).

Consumer health

self-care / OTC.

Nutrition

clinical nutrition

Diagnostics & MedTech

Talk to us about the landscape you are trying to change.

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