Pharma-Hosted Patient Advocacy Meetings

Pharma-hosted meetings for patient advocacy groups are a great way to build support for patient communities. Click here to find out how we can help!

After a little over a decade in business, we here at Med Ink® Consulting have become experts at planning and executing patient advocacy meetings for clients at pharmaceutical companies in the US. Pharmaceutical companies often partner and support patient advocacy groups to meet any number of strategic objectives, such as:

• Improving patient centricity in their operations

• Recruiting more diverse patients for their clinical trials

• Engaging with key decision-makers to improve treatment access

However, healthy advocacy partnerships are a two-way street, and the patient advocacy groups are also deriving numerous benefits, such as monetary support to advance their mission, access to industry experts, and opportunities to spotlight unmet needs in their patient community.

Pharmaceutical companies that make the best corporate partners are those that put the needs of patient advocacy groups first.

Throughout our years in patient advocacy consulting, we have observed many healthy advocacy partnerships, and unfortunately, some not-so-healthy partnerships. Pharmaceutical companies that make the best corporate partners are those that put the needs of the patient advocacy groups first, and the needs of their business second. One way companies demonstrate this is by hosting live or virtual meetings for their patient advocacy partners. Such meetings provide a forum for patient advocacy groups to network, discuss key issues , and share their challenges and successes . In our experience, regular pharma-hosted patient advocacy meetings can lead to greater collaboration and resource sharing among patient advocacy groups and enhanced engagement on key issues.

Clients reach out to Med Ink Consulting to support from initial planning through execution and follow-up. We specialize in bringing a concept to fruition through thoughtful speaker identification and agenda planning, flawless logistical execution and moderation of meetings, and thorough post-meeting report writing, while staying within compliance and ethical guardrails. If you engage patient advocacy organizations and want to encourage collaboration amongst your partners, reach out to us at contact@medinkconsulting.com to discuss how we can help.