Virtual populations.
Real decisions.

Modelling tomorrow for decisions today

Tackling population health challenges means asking big questions, such as:

What impact would a tax on sugary drinks have on reducing obesity over the next 20 years?
How can you look 10 to 20 years ahead to understand the impact of a new drug on its users and your revenue stream?
How should you plan for changing levels of chronic disease caused by climate change?
What impact will different levels of air quality have on healthcare costs between now and 2050?
How can you boost a nation’s health with targeted help at different life stages?

And how do you even know which are the right questions to ask?

That’s where we can help.

Helping you make the best decisions

Our simulation and analysis expertise turns tomorrow’s population health questions and challenges into today’s focussed, specific, actionable decisions.

We can help you understand and explore those questions and challenges far into the future. Our scenario modelling will show you how different kinds of health interventions, drug innovations and policy changes can impact them.

And that will help you choose the best way forward.

What do we do?

When you need a future-facing decision engine for big, real world population health questions, we are the people to turn to.

Solutions

How do we do it?

We’ve created a specific process to help you find, ask and answer the right questions.

Method

What have we done?

We’ve answered many different kinds of questions for many different organisations in over 70 countries.

Track Record

Why choose us?

We have an experienced and multi-disciplinary team of software engineers, population health and policy research experts, and mathematicians.

Team

HealthLumen Blog

Launching our start-up

As Business Operations Manager at HealthLumen, I have been responsible for getting in place all the systems and processes we need to launch the company. I’m sharing here some of our experiences, and the decisions made on the systems we chose, which I hope will be useful for other start-ups aiming to get up and […]

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A sweet alignment: Microsimulation and the soft drinks levy

In the weeks before his election Boris Johnson called for a review and potential roll back of ‘sin taxes’ which bemused experts, including the public health community. He stated that “once we leave the EU on 31 October, we will have a historic opportunity to change the way politics is done in this country. A […]

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Microsimulation modelling for policy change

How do you answer questions about the health of the population? How do you test ideas for policy and intervention change when the option for an experiment or randomized control trial does not exist?   High level, national public health policies can have a significant impact on shaping and creating the environments – physical, food, healthcare, […]

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What is microsimulation and why do we use it?

Originally envisioned by the American economist Guy Orcutt in 1957, microsimulation models have become widely used within economics, and are increasingly used in public and population health and other fields to model the outcomes of government policy.  While more complex and requiring more data than simpler arithmetic and representative agent models, microsimulation models use individual-level […]

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