Gianluca Fontana
Gianluca is a co-founder of Prova Health and a health innovation expert who has supported pharmaceutical companies, digital health innovators and health systems in over 30 global markets. He oversees a wide range of our projects and leads our strategy and business development activities.
Dr Jack Halligan
Jack is a medical doctor and co-founder of Prova Health, where he leads a range of projects across digital health, diagnostics and pharma. He combines clinical experience with time at McKinsey & Company and in academia at Imperial College London.
Dr Saira Ghafur
Saira is a practicing respiratory physician and health policy expert that provides clinical leadership to Prova Health’s projects
Claire Lynam
Claire is the Founder's Associate at Prova Health, where she supports strategy, operations and business development across the firm. She brings experience as a health financing economist and a Master's in Development Economics from the University of Nottingham.
Dr Des Conroy
Des is Head of Capability Building at Prova Health, leading strategic consulting projects that help increase adoption of innovation in healthcare. He is a medical doctor with experience across clinical practice, digital health, and life sciences consulting.
Ryan Callahan
Ryan provides US-based expertise to our global clients and leads projects that bridge the gap between clinical best practice and real world challenges in adoption. He brings experience from hospital financial operations and strategy consulting at McKinsey.
Dr Gareth Obery
Gareth is the Head of Digital Health and AI at Prova Health. He has a background as a South African-trained clinician and holds a Master’s in Applied Digital Health from the University of Oxford.
Dr Samin Saeed
Samin is an experienced global pharmaceutical leader with 18 years in the Pharma industry. Formerly Chief Medical Officer for a private-equity-backed pharma services firm, she has led medical teams and across diverse therapeutic areas.
Dr Ana Luisa Neves
Ana is a medical doctor and PhD researcher with >15 years’ experience evaluating digital health solutions. She has published >40 papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Dr Mehul Patel
Mehul is a GP with an MSc in Health Informatics who has worked in Clinical Lead and Clinical Safety roles for multiple digital health companies.
Dr Divya Srivastava
Divya is a health economist who leads the Digital Health Lab in The Centre for Healthcare Innovation Research at the University of London.
Dr Martina Orlovic
Martina is a health economist with expertise in economic evaluation, market access and health policy.
Dr Iain Charlton
Iain has worked in medical devices and digital health for over 20 years and specialises in the regulation of Software as a Medical Device (SaMD).
Ed Dougherty
Ed advises medical device, diagnostics, and digital health companies, as well as those developing AI-enabled diagnostics and therapeutics to develop actionable strategies for US marketing clearance or approval, rapid adoption, and reimbursement.
Prof Stephen Gilbert
Stephen teaches and conducts research on regulatory science. His research themes are on the intersection between pharmaceutical regulation and medical device regulation. He has worked in senior MedTech and Digital Heath roles in industry.
Jonty Roland
Jonty is an independent adviser on health system reform and universal health coverage to governments, global institutions and private sector organisations.
Didi Thompson
Didi has worked across a range of healthcare and policy initiatives spanning research, consulting, and education at Imperial College London and McKinsey & Company.