Daisy Thomas is Senior Partner and Head of the Healthcare and Life Sciences practice at Portland.
She has worked in healthcare communications for 25 years, most recently as Managing Director for Healthcare and Life Sciences at FTI Consulting and before that as a Director in the Healthcare team at Hill & Knowlton.
Daisy leads integrated strategic communications and public affairs programmes for pharmaceutical, life sciences, medical technology and wider companies across the healthcare sector. Her work includes global, EU and UK programmes, spanning corporate reputation, issues and crisis management, product launches, HTA and market access, and policy and regulatory challenges.
Daisy’s forensic knowledge of the healthcare sector includes rare and genetic diseases, blood conditions, respiratory, pain, oncology, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, sexual health and neuroscience.
Daisy was previously Head of Communications at the Human Tissue Authority, a regulatory agency of the UK Department of Health and Social Care. She is a scientist by training and started her career working with Nobel Prize winners on a programme to increase public understanding of science.