Our team
Prova Health is a global research and consultancy firm focused on accelerating the adoption of health innovation. We work across digital health and AI, pharma and diagnostics, helping innovators prove their value, navigate regulatory and reimbursement pathways, and get adopted by the health systems and markets that matter most.
Since 2020, we've grown into a team of experts spanning the UK and US, working with clients in all major markets. Our proprietary network of 600+ healthcare insiders across 40+ countries keeps our work grounded in how care is actually delivered.
Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder
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.
Chief Operating Officer & Co-founder
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.
Chief Medical Officer & Co-founder
Dr Saira Ghafur
Saira is a practicing respiratory physician and health policy expert that provides clinical leadership to Prova Health’s projects
Senior Director
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.
Senior Consultant, Head of Capability Building
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.
Associate Consultant
Carmen Garcia Sebego
Carmen is an Associate Consultant at Prova Health, where she supports projects across Digital Health, Diagnostics and Pharmaceuticals. She holds a joint degree in Biochemistry and Management from Imperial College London and has experience in clinical trial strategy and medical devices.
Founders' Associate
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.
Senior Consultant, Head of Digital Health and AI
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.
Board Advisor
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.
Advisor, Regulation
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).
Advisor, Regulatory and Reimbursement (US)
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.
Advisor, Regulation and Market Access
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.
Advisor, Health Systems
Maria Hovakimyan
Maria Hovakimyan is an Advisor to Armenia’s Minister of Health and a health systems professional leading international partnerships for reforms in universal health coverage, quality of care, and health system strengthening.
Advisor, Regulation
Adam Isaacs Rae
Adam Isaacs Rae is Director of The Other Consultants, where the goal of the organisation is to help turn innovation into approved medical device products by shaping regulatory strategy through design control, clinical evidence, quality systems and certification.
Advisor, Clinical Evidence
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.
Advisor, Health Economics
Dr Martina Orlovic
Martina is a health economist with expertise in economic evaluation, market access and health policy.
Advisor, Digital Health and AI
Dr Mehul Patel
Mehul is a practising NHS General Practitioner with over 13 years of clinical experience and an MSc in Health Informatics from UCL/University of Manchester.
Advisor, Health Systems
Jonty Roland
Jonty is an independent adviser on health system reform and universal health coverage to governments, global institutions and private sector organisations.
Advisor, Economic Evidence
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.
Advisor, Health Systems
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.
Advisor, Market Access (US)
Susan Xu
Susan is a US-based healthcare reimbursement and market access strategist with experience advising digital health companies on how to access the US market.
Our purpose
Prova Health exists to improve health for all by accelerating the adoption of health innovation.
We believe that innovation in healthcare needs to be evidence-based, safe, effective and provide value for money. We act on these convictions by supporting the countless organisations and individuals that are trying to make healthcare better.
Our values
Trust
Trust is at the core of everything we do. We want to build trust with our clients, partners and team members. We strengthen trust in health innovation. We keep our word when we commit to do something and we maintain high standards and an independent point of view.
Care
Care is what we want to give to the people we work and interact with. It is a necessity. To us, that means being thoughtful, kind, respectful and inclusive.
Excellence
Excellence is what we aspire to. At Prova Health we are ambitious. We want to tackle big challenges and do so globally. We are lucky to have incredibly innovative people and organisations as our clients. We are inspired by them to always push the boundaries of what we do.
Collaboration
Collaboration is the only way we can achieve our purpose. We will not be able to do it alone. We practise collaboration within our team, we build strong relationships, as equal partners, with our clients and we create connections between the people we encounter that share our goals and beliefs.