Consulting

From access strategy to programme delivery.

I help pharma access teams, health programmes and consultancies find out why access isn't working, organise the work to fix it, keep grants compliant and build the reporting it needs. Daisy Mutegi, 13 years in pharma and global health across East and Southern Africa.

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The Health Access Programme Review.

A short, fixed-scope review of an access or patient programme that isn't delivering what it should. You get a clear view of what's in the way, and a prioritised plan to fix it.

01

Read what exists

The programme plan, partner agreements, reports and data you already have.

Week 1
02

Talk to the people running it

Short interviews with your team and key partners: what works, what's stuck, and why.

Week 1 to 2
03

Find the delivery barriers

Pricing, procurement, distribution, partner roles, patient follow-up or reporting gaps.

Week 2
04

Hand over a plan

A short report and a working session: the barriers, ranked actions, owners and what to measure.

Week 2 to 3

Fixed fee, agreed after a free 30-minute call, depending on the programme's size and number of countries. Done remotely, with travel where it's needed.

Services

Four things you can hire me for.

Access and market assessments

Why a product isn't reaching patients

Affordability, procurement routes, tenders, distributors, stakeholders and policy, for a product, a country or a portfolio.

  • Access barrier and affordability assessment
  • Procurement and tender route mapping
  • Distributor and partner review
  • Deliverable: assessment with ranked recommendations

Programme design and delivery

From a plan on paper to a programme that runs

Design or rescue an access or patient support programme: partners, responsibilities, milestones and the reporting that goes with them.

  • Programme and partner design
  • Implementation planning and coordination
  • Patient support and continuity of care
  • Deliverable: plan, roles, milestones and reporting framework

Grants and donor compliance

Funding that's well managed, and ready for the next round

For programmes and organisations working with donors and foundations: managing grants well, reporting cleanly and getting ready to apply.

  • Grants management and donor reporting
  • Compliance reviews and partner capacity checks
  • Funding readiness for NGOs and CSOs
  • Deliverable: compliance review, readiness plan or proposal

Systems and automation

The tool the work needs, scoped small

A tracker, dashboard or automated report built around how your team already works, often WhatsApp and spreadsheets.

  • Partner and action trackers
  • Programme and access dashboards
  • Automated donor and management reports
  • Deliverable: a working tool, with samples here
Ways to work together

Pick the shape that fits.

Project

A defined piece of work

A review, an assessment, a programme plan or a proposal, with a fixed scope, deliverables and date.

Fixed fee
Part-time support

Ongoing help on agreed days

Part-time access or programme support for a team that needs senior experience without a full-time hire, on an agreed number of days a month.

Monthly, days agreed upfront
Associate

On another consultancy's team

For advisory firms bidding for or delivering health access, programme or grants work that need someone with hands-on field experience.

Day rate, per engagement
Track record

Experience from previous roles.

Results from my time at Novo Nordisk and CHAI, as an employee. Mindset & Machines client work is shown separately, in the work samples.

13 yrs
in pharma and global health across East and Southern Africa
~21,000
patients reached by an insulin access programme I managed
~1 million
insulin vials supplied over that programme's lifetime
5
countries of distributor and tender work: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia

Roles: Programme Manager, T1D Markets, CHAI (grants management and donor compliance). Access to Care Manager and Compliance Lead, Middle Africa, Novo Nordisk. Key account and medical roles at Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk. BSc Biochemistry (First Class), PMP.

Next step

Tell me about the problem.

A few lines on what's happening and your timing. I'll reply within two working days.