Evidence that keeps pace with decisions

We bring rapid and rigorous insights to improve outcomes and understanding across systems, places and people.

Our Work

Who we are

We are an agency specialising in evaluations of complex systems across public health, health services and public policy. As an interdisciplinary team, combining methodological expertise, technical expertise and domain knowledge, we deliver rapid, rigorous insights that keep pace with decision making.

We use technology, including AI, in a transparent and considered way, applying it only where it strengthens our evaluations, while keeping strong audit trails and human oversight throughout.

We believe speed should buy time for what matters. By using technology to quicken the parts of evaluation it can handle, we free up more time for genuine engagement with people and participatory methods.

Areas of expertise

We take a health equity lens to all of our work, asking who benefits and who is left out.

What we evaluate

Health services and systems

From a single service to a whole pathway or system: how it works in practice, where it falls short, and what would make it better.

Public health programmes and policy

Prevention, screening and population health initiatives, from local pilot to national rollout.

Place-based programmes

Interventions rooted in a particular neighbourhood, town or local system, where the setting is part of the intervention.

How we evaluate

Realist and theory-based evaluation

For complex interventions with many moving parts: what works, for whom, in what circumstances, and why.

Qualitative and mixed-methods evaluation

Interviews, observation and documents, analysed rigorously and combined with the numbers so that each explains the other.

Quantitative and epidemiological analysis

Routine and survey data showing how health and service use vary by income, ethnicity, place, and other social conditions.

Participatory evaluation

Working with the people who use and deliver a service to shape the questions, gather the evidence, and make sense of the findings.

What we offer

End-to-end evaluation

We design and deliver full evaluations, from framework and data collection through to analysis, reporting and recommendations.

Evaluation capacity building

Have in-house evaluation capacity, but want to improve your systems? We work alongside staff to build sustainable technology-supported evaluation workflows.

Learning partner

We act as a learning partner and critical friend across multi-site programmes, supporting evaluation and helping synthesise and share learning as the work develops.

An interdisciplinary team

We combine methodological expertise, domain knowledge and AI capability in an integrated practice.

Saoirse Moriarty

Saoirse Moriarty

Academic Lead

Saoirse is currently pursuing a PhD in Social Epidemiology at UCL, looking at the environments around schools such as air pollution and heat and how it affects children's health outcomes. She holds an MSc in Public Health. Saoirse has five years of experience in evaluations of the health sector and in health policy.

Nils Strassenburg

Nils Strassenburg

Technical Lead

Nils has nearly ten years of experience in software development and machine learning research. His research focuses on how machine learning models can be reused or replaced with cheaper alternatives, making ML more affordable, practical, and sustainable. At Reflexivity he leads development of our qualitative analysis pipeline and oversees data management and governance.

Let's talk about your evaluation needs

Whether you're commissioning an evaluation or looking for faster, more useful evidence, we'd love to hear from you.

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