As an Associate Principal in our Advisory team, Leah is focused on the "human side of health" at the intersection of behavioral science and human-centered design. She is passionate about understanding people and their needs and connecting this with the experiences that healthcare organizations can offer to improve patients' lives. She has worked on a range of behavior change, human-centered design, and organizational transformation projects as well as brand and portfolio strategy and initiative planning. For example, she has led a major behavioral science organizational transformation engagement and ongoing partnership on behavior change initiatives from treatment uptake and shared decision making to AI adoption, and driven Medical and MI digital transformation across multiple pharma and large biotech organizations. She has led strategy development and co-creation facilitation for Patient Partnerships teams, and acted as strategic lead for a key precision medicine agency of record account in prostate cancer. Before joining Avalere Health, she worked at health and consumer-focused advertising agencies, developing brands, driving research, and leading business development processes. Leah's therapeutic expertise lies within vaccines and infectious diseases, internal medicine, precision medicine, inflammation & immunology, oncology (prostate cancer, hemato-oncology, cross-tumor type), and women's health, as well as the areas of digital health and internal change management.
