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NEW YORK, NY - Apr 5, 2017 - HealthUnlocked has appointed Nassim Azzi as Vice President of Business Development in the US. The new role will be instrumental in defining and implementing the wider commercial strategy within the U.S.

Nassim brings with him a wealth of experience in business and the pharmaceutical industry, with a true focus on patient centricity. His expertise extends across clinical trial productivity, meaningful collaboration with patients and clinical research, having worked at eyeforpharma and trade association, The Society for Clinical Research Sites (SCRS).

Based within their New York office, the role will build new commercial partners and help to define new value propositions, based on the millions of patient interactions that HealthUnlocked supports every month on its social network.

Nassim Azzi, Vice President Business Development, said: "Patients today are more knowledgeable and vested in their own health than ever before. I am thrilled to be joining the only platform that gives patients access to knowledge and the opportunity to directly impact on the drug delivery process. I believe that HealthUnlocked have the potential to transform the healthcare industry to be truly patient centric and achieve what many have been looking to do, for many years now."

Executive Vice President, Phil Golz said: “We’re delighted that Nassim is joining HealthUnlocked. His vast experience across healthcare and pharmaceuticals will help us to broaden and deepen our relationship with US healthcare organizations and continue to support the millions of Americans who use our platform every month. Nassim joins the organisation at a very exciting time for us where we are seeing rapid growth and a high level of interest in our products; his work will support the evolution and delivery of this patient-centred commercial model”

HealthUnlocked is the world’s largest social network for health attracting over 5 million visits per month into its 700 health communities, the majority of which are lead by non-profit partners.  The platform is in English, Spanish and Portuguese and covers over 175 disease areas as well as lifestyle and wellbeing topics.  

People use the platform to share experiences of their health in a safe place, as well as to learn more about their health interest from other people with similar interests.  By joining the platform people can benefit from the unique intelligence, which is designed to educate, inform and engage them with their health, pushing health relevant content to them on a regular basis. HealthUnlocked provides digital solutions to pharmaceutical manufacturers, research organisations, payors and providers.

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For more information contact: Alexa Chaffer, communications

alexa.chaffer@healthunlocked.com

1. HealthUnlocked is the world’s largest social network for health. Millions of people come to HealthUnlocked each month to get free peer to peer and expert support from hundreds and health and wellbeing online communities.

2.  Usage of the site has been shown to produce a better engaged cohort of individuals, who have better health outcomes, feel more confident in managing their health, use clinical services less and have more positive reactions with doctors and health professionals.

3. Key Facts and Figures about HealthUnlocked:

• Over 600,000 members spread across the globe sharing experiences of living with a condition

• Over 40 million visitors to the platform every year

• More than 700 communities for people with long term conditions

• 70% of HealthUnlocked members want to take part in medical research

• The HealthUnlocked platform is used as a clinical care planning tool in 75 hospitals in the UK, with plans to role this out further in 2016.

• Named in The 2016 Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 2016, one of the UK’s foremost technology award programmes.