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Thought leadership
In-depth articles for clinical development leaders
01
Field note
I made it to the final. I did not get in. Here is what happened next.
On near misses, patient experience data as a policy mechanism, and our new Germany resources.
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Regulatory watch
Is the Gulf the next frontier for inclusive healthcare? I went to find out.
On the Gulf opportunity, the latest EMA announcement, and emerging scrutiny of evidence bases.
03
Regulatory watch
The IDP conversation I keep having. And England are in the quarter finals.
On MHRA Inclusion and Diversity Plan requirements, toolkit insights, and an upcoming conversation with Lisa Kerr.
04
Field note
I know the battle I am going to have.
On systemic exhaustion, how gatekeepers miss solutions, and Episode 2 with Ella Balasa.
05
System critique
What the industry is saying. And what it still cannot bring itself to do.
On industry conferences, what leadership says out loud, and what quietly stays on the whiteboard.
06
Community data
The thirty-year flat line. And the room where I understood why.
On measurement failures, recruitment barriers, and what data gaps actually reveal.
07
Community data
Nothing about us without us. And more racist abuse in Seville.
On the Patient Engagement and Outcomes Framework, real-world outcomes, and MVP 2.0.
08
System critique
Our job is not to make people more trusting. It is to make healthcare more trustworthy.
Reframing trust as system feedback, with keynote insights that reached thousands.
09
Community data
The visit schedule nobody designed for you.
On post-launch silence, how the data gets interpreted, and what the June conversations look like.
10
Community data
What surprised me about our own research.
1,204 community members. The two biggest barriers are structural. Neither is about trust.
11
Community data
1,200 people told us the truth. The industry won't like it.
Diversity and inclusion is becoming a dirty phrase. That is exactly why I won't stop saying it.
12
System critique
The comfortable framing is the expensive one.
On why the wrong framing keeps winning, what conviction actually costs, and the first results from the field.
13
Field note
When the industry backs off, we lean forward.
On third places, what the floor revealed, and why I lean forward when the industry backs off.
14
System critique
The conversation the industry keeps avoiding.
On patient advisory boards, portfolio-level thinking, and the argument I am taking to Boston.
15
Regulatory watch
The window of opportunity is shorter than you think.
On regulatory trajectories, why GDPR is actually an advantage, and what I am bringing to Boston.
16
Field note
The uncle that only comes for Christmas.
On follow-through failures, algorithmic assumptions, and what a patient summit reminded me.
17
System critique
Your patient advisory board is not community engagement.
Why the distinction matters and what real infrastructure looks like.
18
System critique
Health equity is not a communications problem.
Why the industry has been solving the wrong problem for decades.
19
Community data
2,000 people joined our platform in 6 weeks. Here is what worked.
The honest account of what drove early traction and what we would do differently.
20
Field note
This week at Unwritten Health: data gaps, Europe, and what comes next.
A look at where things stand and what the European opportunity looks like.
21
Field note
Chapter one of 2026 is complete. Now the real work begins.
What January taught us and why this moment in the market matters.
22
System critique
When community engagement becomes recruitment, everyone loses.
The line between genuine engagement and extraction, and what to do instead.
23
Field note
Funding, lived experience, and the cost of accountability.
The inaugural dispatch. On who pays for real community involvement and what changes that.
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