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

NEWS: Long-term health impacts of changing air pollution exposure in London

Today, the Mayor of London published a HealthLumen report commissioned by Transport for London and the Greater London Authority modelling the long-term health impacts of changing exposure to NO2 and PM2.5 in London.   The report reveals that by 2050 the impact of current air quality policies, including the London Environment Strategy are predicted to result […]

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NEWS: The Health of the Nation – A Strategy for Healthier Longer Lives

Yesterday saw the launch of the National Strategy to meet the government’s stated mission of “five extra healthy years by 2035”. The key challenge this initiative aims to address is that, whilst we are all living longer, too many of these years are just extra years of bad health. There are also continued, significant health […]

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2020 Vision: And beyond

The term “20/20 vision” informally denotes perfect eyesight. So, moving into the year 2020 it is an apt metaphor for our goal, which is to help improve global population health through better decision-making. Our forecasting methodology – based on a microsimulation model – integrates health, economic and population data from multiple sources as a baseline […]

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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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