Swarna Sundar

With nearly two decades of experience in healthcare technologies and life sciences, Swarna Sundar specializes in Commercial Strategy, Market Research, Health Policy, Medical Education, Patient Advocacy, Market Opportunity Assessment, Trend Forecasting, and Competitive Intelligence. I have authored numerous peer-reviewed publications on healthcare topics. My therapeutic areas of focus include oncology, infectious diseases, immunology, respiratory diseases, and rare diseases. I also possess extensive knowledge of medical devices, patient monitoring, diagnostic imaging, and in-vitro diagnostics.

Swarna has experience working with global clients ranging from North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. During her career, her work has included developing market research reports, analyzing new market opportunities, developing market entry strategies, evaluating strategic business partners, providing comprehensive market intelligence for the medical technology ecosystem, and offering strategic guidance for distribution expansion into new geographies.

She has also directed global healthcare research and consulting projects focused on policy, patient/ healthcare advocacy, and market access. Notable contributions include developing a Global AMR Policy Toolkit for a multinational pharmaceutical company, creating Advocacy Stakeholder Maps to guide clients through complex immunology policy landscapes, and supporting Rare Disease Advocacy Plans to strengthen policy engagement and capacity-building efforts worldwide.

As an independent consultant, she has worked with several international organizations to identify unmet patient needs through research and global surveys, generating insights that guided advocacy and investment decisions. She has also mapped oncology landscapes in India and the US to highlight care gaps and inform the design of a digital support platform for cancer patients.

Clients that Swarna has worked with include Pfizer, Merck, GE Healthcare, Philips Healthcare, BioMérieux, LG Life Science, Siemens Healthcare IAPO, among others. Swarna’s Master's thesis was on "Diagnosis of Severity of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome". Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at international conferences.