Our Experience

Examples of our Consultancy Projects

We are consulted by a broad range of clients: from Governments and multinationals, to film companies and charities. Each organisation faces challenges in its sphere of operation, necessitating a considered and bespoke response. Here follows a sample of our consultancy projects.

Infectious Disease Planning and Pandemic Response Teams

We have led pandemic response teams and consulted for companies of differing sizes during the COVID crisis. Our backgrounds in Immunology, Organizational Psychology and International Medicine are invaluable to advising effectively whatever the infectious threat: from cholera and malaria, to Ebola, Zika or COVID.

Keeping Teams Safe Abroad
For a governmental organisation we were tasked with creating a protocol for a team travelling to Congo during an Ebola outbreak. If an employee presented with a feverish illness, what measures should be taken to ensure that they and their colleagues remained safe; which other diagnoses should be considered – especially stressing the importance of malaria and its prophylaxis and treatment.
Practical Infectious Disease Consultancy
A multinational financial institution consulted with us to explore options during the Zika outbreak in the Far East. They were considering building a ‘shadow’ trading floor at considerable expense, only to be used when the main trading floor was closed due to the epidemic. Giving detailed advice, we were able to show that modifying the practices and protocols in the existing trading floor would be a far safer and economic method to ensuring that their employees remained safe and that business practices remained optimal.
Infectious Disease Expertise

For an oil and gas client, we were asked to provide expert infectious disease and international medicine advice during a review of a serious medical incident. Our knowledge of the industry, remote medical operations, testing, and local medical practices enabled us to provide a clear judgement on what had occurred and how improvements might be made.

Mission Enablement
A major supranational military alliance tasked us to design, build, and operate a COVID PCR testing site, to test all personnel arriving in the theatre of operations, and ensure that the virus was not brought in by troops arriving for duty. By undertaking this work, we successfully helped to ensure that the mission could continue throughout the entire COVID emergency.

Site visits – health assessments Uganda, Nigeria, West Indies

When multinational companies have particular issues with the healthcare provision in certain countries, there is often no better option that to perform in-field assessments. Working closely with the organisations is essential to learn what the issues are and what solutions they are currently utilising.

We have a background working in some of the world’s best hospitals. Knowing what excellence is informs our on-site assessments, as well as a realistic appreciation of what is possible in different parts of the globe. Sometimes, we have been asked to review the medical infrastructure that already exists to support a project.

Nigeria
We were tasked with assessing over 20 hospitals and clinics, to find where our patients could be stabilised should an emergency happen.
West Indies

When consulted to conduct in-field appraisals of the healthcare facilities in the West Indies, our assessment of several islands revealed a different set of challenges for an unwell client. As the populations of the Islands in the region were modest, the scale of local medical facilities was sometimes found to be limited, as was the range of medical issues to which the hospital staff were exposed. Exceptional medical facilities were present, however, and identifying where these were located in the region, and how patients could be transported to them, was of paramount importance to our client.

Uganda

In rural Uganda, we were invited to review a large set of clinics and hospitals to understand where patients might be stabilised should a medical emergency occur. Reviewing the medical capability of the hospitals in Kampala was also part of the brief, as an appreciation of what could be undertaken within Uganda and what would need to occur in neighbouring Kenya, a centre of medical excellence, was essential.

Bespoke reports

We have produced bespoke reports on a range of subjects for our clients.
Reducing Organisational Risk
One large multinational needed realistic options on how to care for their workers at altitude. This involved not only literature reviews on what had been attempted to mitigate risk to workers in similar contexts, but also how this could be applied to the present set of employees: their journey to the workplace at altitude, identifying places where possible acclimatisation stops could be instigated, and any possible medical interventions that could help.
Caring for Employees
A global charity consulted with us to review how humanitarian workers could be better cared for following assault in the field. The project investigated how common the issue was, what were the medical and psychological issues that often followed, at what point self-disclosure occurred, which tests should be done, and which medication could be administered at which stages. Different models of medication distribution were included, along with their financial and medical impacts.
In all our work, Chiron International thinks in the fullest of terms about a given situation and its challenges, suggesting solutions and novel approaches based on experience and supported by research.