Professionals Uplifting Patient Partnerships (PUPP) Event 22 July 2025

Creative Advocacy Solutions and AccessCR are excited to invite you to our third Professionals Uplifting Patient Partnership (PUPP) networking event exclusively for the health technology/therapeutics industry patient engagement and advocacy professionals, government departments/agencies and /eadership/policy and advocacy staff within patient communities.

PUPP's aim is to connect the leaders, decision makers and doers actively working to elevate and uplift patient involvement and partnership in the therapeutics industry. We will tackle topics of interest through sharing experiences and knowledge, and together fill our buckets with the information, energy and motivation to continue this important activity, while having a little bit of fun. 

This event will explore "Developing an Effective Patient Advocacy Strategy."  

Designed to build on the more conceptual discussion held at the last event around the role of patient advocacy in shaping policy and access, this event will get into the nitty-gritty of developing an effective strategy to deliver on patient advocacy objectives. A panel and attendees will explore: 

• The importance of strategy for effective patient advocacy

• Defining and building a strategy

• One voice or many?

• Measuring success and maintaining momentum

• Examples of success, failure and lessons learned.

The invited guests we will be engaging with via the panel include:

• Rachel Stanton, Group Managing Director, Ogilvy Health 

• Monique Cerreto, Head of Communications & Engagement, Australia New Zealand Gynaecological Oncology Group (ANZGOG) 

• Hayley Andersen, Head of Patient Advocacy and Policy, BMS Australia/New Zealand

• Sam Develin, Director, External Affairs, Moderna Australia and New Zealand.

Attendees will also have an opportunity to network with like-minded individuals, and share your experiences and ask questions of the Panel.  

PUPP events are designed to be an intimate forum for meaningful, open, frank discussion and networking between like-minded individuals over canapes and drinks. Places are limited, and industry/government professional tickets part-subsidise patient organisation tickets. We prefer only two representatives from any one organisation attend to improve cross-organisation networking opportunities and input. Individuals attending should have a professional role/expertise and commitment to patient-centred care and patient partnership in the therapeutics sector. If you are unsure whether it this event is appropriate for you, please do not hesitate to contact us.