Health research & consultancy company
From user expertise to health innovation
Our value proposition
ARGO Santé is a research and consultancy company positioned in the health and disability sector. We address the challenges involved in medical and disability care, working to provide information and guidance that will:
- Improve the fluidity and coordination of patient pathways
- Facilitate access to new products, treatments or medical devices
- Assess the socio-economic impact of new healthcare schemes or structures
To meet our clients’ needs, the company develops a specific approach based on transforming the individual experiences of the unwell or disabled into expertise and incorporating it into standard assessment, investigative and socio-medico-economic analysis tools.
Specialist expertise increasing health and disability awareness
ARGO Santé has specialist expertise in compiling, transforming and interpreting first-hand, experiential knowledge from the unwell or disabled and the experiences of medical, paramedical and scientific professionals. The ARGO Santé team is particularly proficient in the methodological tools used in the human and social sciences (economic health, sociology and psychology) and quantitative analysis (data management, statistics and econometrics).
Industry-specific services
Biotechnology developers, pharmaceutical companies, digital healthcare providers
Enhance your assessment documents from proof of concept to post-marketing authorization with studies on patient pathways and publicize the results in scientific communications.
Strategic consultancy on the research needed to promote a new therapy:
- Studies on patients’ quality of life
- PROM/PREM statistical studies, data management and analysis
- Disease burden and patients’ unmet needs assessed by qualitative research
- Sociological interviews, focus groups, expert opinions, etc.
Developing partnerships with patient advocacy groups and medical experts:
- Chairing patient advisory boards
- The groups’ and experts’ early involvement in the study proposal
Support promoting the results of patient-centred studies:
- Scientific publications
- Posters and presentations of the results at medical conferences
Assisting groups in submitting a treatment assessment application to the health authorities:
- Help compiling the application
- Producing supporting arguments from new data
- Providing training on medico-economic concepts, knowledge of the health system and clinical trials
We develop partnerships in Europe and the US to bring our clients international patient studies
Our recent projects
The “user-centred” services commissioned by our clients (groups, manufacturers, national or regional health agencies, hospital boards, hospital services, personal service providers, study centres, consultancy companies, etc.) have led us to:
- Model health and support pathways for those living with a life-threatening genetic condition in order to accelerate a new therapy’s availability
- Produce recommendations for improving the diagnosis, management and support of people with multiple disabilities and their carers
- Conduct a benchmark study on housing people with motor disabilities and cost measures to help them
- Design support tools for people living with a rare condition
- Train groups and healthcare professionals on the effects of breakdowns in treatment and care pathways for those living with autism
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A dedicated and enthusiastic team
At Argo Santé, we know that the wants and needs of the unwell or disabled affect us all. We believe that our health system should address those disadvantaged groups’ unmet needs and tailor its management and support to their expectations, as well as those of the professionals who support them. For us, that has to mean acknowledging the individual experiences of the people involved. That ambition drives us: it’s even in our DNA!
Marieke Podevin, Founder
After graduating with a PhD in Macro-Econometrics, Marieke Podevin joined France’s Health Ministry in 2004, working first within the Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics Division (DREES) and later the Healthcare Future Committee (HCAAM), two experiences that shaped her vision of the health system and the challenges it faces. Having herself founded and chaired an advocacy group for patients with a rare condition, SOS DESMOIDE, she decided to share her experience and expertise as an economist with a major patient advocacy group and joined the AFM-TELETHON in 2008 to highlight patients’ wants and needs and medico-economic issues such as the price and cost of innovative therapies and orphan medicinal products. She founded the company ARGO Santé in 2014 with the roadmap she has followed for over twenty years: using patients’ expertise to transform the health system.
Gaëlle Thomas, Research Analyst
After graduating both a French « Grande école » of Chemistry and A Msc in Chemistry/Biochemistry/Biology specialized in drug development, Gaëlle Thomas joined Roche and the Montpellier Institute of Cancerology (IRCM) to complete a PhD project on monoclonal antibodies directed against pancreatic tumors developed on mice models. She then decided to connect her scientific knowledge with patients’ “real life”, on a more translational position, moving towards clinical research. She joined the Centre Val de Loire regional committee against HIV and the infectious disease department of the Orléans hospital as both Clinical research associate and Study site coordinator, specialized on HIV. This position led her to get involved in the whole process of clinical trials, from the protocol design and regulatory requirements compliance to the contact with healthcare teams and patients. Eager to make the patients and disabled voice heard with a both human and scientific approach, she joined Argo Santé in 2020 as study manager.
