Alison Howell, PhD

Alison Howell, PhD, is a Senior Director who leads the Value Demonstration service within Fortrea’s Market Access Consulting and HEOR group. She has over 18 years of experience in market access consulting.

Alison provides strategic direction to projects, specializing in partnering with clients to develop and validate impactful value messages for their products. She delivers the value messages through tactical value communication tools in a variety of formats for use with internal stakeholder and external decision makers. She is well published in medical and health economic journals across many therapeutic areas and has delivered education symposia at international congresses.

Before joining Fortrea (formerly Labcorp and Covance), Alison worked for seven years at Medaxial, a specialist value communications consultancy. Prior to that she worked as a researcher at the University of Edinburgh, studying molecular mechanisms of learning and memory.

Alison earned a PhD in Neuroscience and a BSc in Pharmacology from the University of Edinburgh. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (UK).