News and musings from the Sprout team
If behavioural science was a TikTok trend, would Gen Z listen?
Dr Laura Meade Immunization week This week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and global public health partners recognize...
World Health Day – Supporting Single Parents
Dr Vanessa Cooper The theme of World Health Day 2021 is “building a fairer, healthier world.” At Sprout Health Solutions, our focus this year is on the health inequalities faced by single parents. We explore some of the issues faced by single parents generally,...
Sprout Health Solutions and Takeda explore digital health tools in rare disease during COVID-19
White Paper Provides Insights on the Value of Digital Health Tools During a Time of Isolation and Limited Healthcare Access London - Sprout Health Solutions Limited, a global consultancy specializing in behavior science and health outcomes, has partnered with...
Caring for the carer
Dr Alicia Hughes, Dr Laura Meade and Dr Christina Jackson The rate of dementia is on the rise. By 2025 it is expected that over 1 million people in the UK will be living with dementia.1 In most cases, people with dementia become dependent on a caregiver for...
Using mobile apps to turn your new year’s resolutions into lasting behaviour change
Dr Laura Meade and Fernanda Trevisan For many, the start of the new year brings the proclamation of aspirational health related goals. But as 2021 forges on, over half of us will have cast those resolutions aside; the exercise goals forgotten, the new diet plan...
Healthy sleep, the cornerstone to good health
Dr Alicia Hughes and Miseo Baek It’s Sleep Awareness Week! At Sprout we know the importance of sleep on health and wellbeing. Here we look at the relationship between sleep and health and highlight some strategies we can all use to sleep better. Sleep...
“Women are not small men” Tackling underrepresentation of women in HIV clinical studies
Dr Vanessa Cooper For National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day in the USA, Sprout Health Solutions wants to take this opportunity to bring attention to one of the health inequalities affecting women around the world – underrepresentation in clinical...
Meet Sprout – Dr Laura Meade, Senior Scientist
In our Meet Sprout series, we ask each member of the Sprout Health Solutions team about their work, what brought them here and what makes them tick. First up is Dr Laura Meade, Senior Scientist, based in Canada. What does your role at Sprout involve? Something...
Sometimes it really is a zebra! Listening to the patient voice without burdening the rare disease community
We hear so much about the importance of “the patient voice”, but what does this really mean, and do we truly understand how best to incorporate this into drug development work? We reflect on these questions in relation to rare disease and look at what we can do...
Applying behavioural science can improve outcomes in coronary heart disease
February is American Heart Month, so we’re going to look at an aspect of behavioural science that can have an impact on outcomes in coronary heart disease (CHD). People act in line with their thoughts and feelings: the Common Sense Model If you have a conversation...
Patient-focused drug development and “beyond the pill” strategies could improve the safety of cancer drugs
Increasingly, pharma is striving towards true patient centricity and here we explore how patient-focused drug development (PFDD) could have a direct impact on drug safety and adverse event management. The FDA is developing guidance for PFDD with the goal to better...
Coping with COVID-19 lockdowns
As people across the world are living under lockdowns to limit the spread of COVID-19, it is crucial to take care of our mental and physical health. During the first lockdown, we developed a 3-pillar approach aimed at helping older adults to keep healthy and active at...
If you are concerned over the risk of the COVID-19 vaccine, read this first!
For those of you who may be concerned or hesitant about receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, here’s what has helped our decision-making at Sprout. The only vaccinations to be approved for COVID-19 at the time of writing use the mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) method. We...
2021, Year of the vaccine challenge: the role of behavioral science
We believe that successful roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccination will have a bigger impact on most people’s lives than anything else in 2021. Good uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine will be important for bringing the pandemic under control and allowing some normality to...
Sprout Health Solutions Honored in PM360’s Annual Innovation Issue
Sprout Behaviour Change and Sprout Health Outcomes Cited as Among Most Innovative Divisions in 2020 Los Angeles - Sprout Health Solutions was recognized as having two of the most innovative divisions within the healthcare and life sciences industries by PM360, a...
Sprout Health Solutions debuts new branding
Behavior Science Specialists Restructure Portfolio of Solutions-Based Offerings for Improved Health and Regulatory Success November 30 – London – Sprout Health Solutions, a UK-based global consultancy formerly known as Sprout Behaviour Change, announced their new name...
An ingenious tool for pharmacists
At Sprout, we know pharmacists can play a pivotal role in improving medication adherence. That was the inspiration behind Pharminder, a new digital tool from health tech pioneers Artilect in New Zealand, that uses person-centered design principles to extend the...
In PM360 Magazine this month! – July 2020
Our co-founder Christina Jackson is one of a panel of industry experts discussing the barriers pharmaceutical companies can benefit from addressing. Her takeaway advice? Pharma needs to take more risks in being transparent with patients. ‘From my experience, pharma is...
Emotional needs of CLN2 families
Our co-founder Lina Eliasson co-authored a recently published paper highlighting the need for emotional and practical support for families caring for a child with Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis Type 2 Disease (CLN2), a rare degenerative neurometabolic condition that...
Launching our Three-Pillar Plan for body and mind during the Covid-19 crisis
The coronavirus crisis has been a shock to us all – and has meant a sudden and dramatic change in the way we live. Many of us are no longer able to follow the routines that keep us healthy, both mentally and physically, such as exercising and socialising. As health...
The EMERGE guideline on medicine adherence
Sprout founders Lina Eliasson and Christina Jackson, and Sarah Clifford who recently launched our US office, have all worked on a fascinating new paper on the International Society for Medication Adherence (ESPACOMP) Medication Adherence Reporting Guideline (EMERGE)....
Our new Hunter syndrome caregiver support program
We were very proud to present a poster on our nurse-delivered caregiver support program for Hunter syndrome at the 2019 Connect For Care, an international meeting for rare disease nurses. Hunter syndrome is a very rare inherited metabolic disorder, which can cause a...
A new screener for monitoring adherence
Our co-founder, Christina Jackson, has co-authored a newly published paper with academics at King’s College London, reporting on testing a brief screener to prompt discussions about adherence in routine consultations. The team worked with 161 people with type 2...