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What We Do

VAL Health is the leading health-related behavioral science consulting firm. We are the experts on healthcare behavior change. Our toolkit of behavioral science is pioneered by our academic co-founders including Dr. Kevin Volpp and Dr. David Asch, and enhanced with over fifteen years of real-world experience. We deliver behavioral strategies, optimize journey, and enhance communications to deliver sustained health engagement and behavior change for clients.

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How We’re Different

We look at issues in healthcare through a unique behavioral lens and create solutions that are rooted in the science of behavior change. This gives our clients the advantage of long-lasting engagement impact, not just short-term fixes.

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What We Deliver

We provide turn-key strategies and solutions for our clients to achieve sustained engagement and behavior change. Broad behavioral strategies set the direction for your general business or specific product/service. Actionable solutions address user journey, framing and incentives.

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Our Clients

VAL Health’s clients are transforming healthcare: payers, digital health, health systems, pharma, and diagnostics.

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Our Team

The VAL Health team includes our academic co-founders and our experienced professionals – including Karen Sussman Horgan, Dr. Kevin Volpp and Dr. David Asch - all of whom have expertise in developing engagement and behavior change solutions focused solely on health and health care.

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Behavior change is hard.

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