Partners / Liva Healthcare

Liva Healthcare

Liva Healthcare is a Copenhagen and London based health-tech company providing an innovative platform connecting patients and health professionals digitally to drive behaviour and lifestyle change – and manage diseases and care plans. Apart from text and video consultation, the platform features patient tracking tools and online support groups. The platform is used by healthcare authorities, pharma and insurance companies to drive patient engagement, clinical outcomes and healthcare delivery efficiency with real-time data insight. Liva Healthcare is founded by the serial entrepreneurs behind e-health successes such as NetDoctor.com, E-Doktor and SundhedsDoktor.

Liva’s role in the project is to lead work package 2, responsible for the Bump2Baby and Me App and health coaching library and for providing and developing the digital platform.

Jesper Andresen

Principal Investigator (PI) and WP2 Leader

Jesper is Head of Project Development and Fundraising at Liva Healthcare. He holds a PhD in Anthropology and Philosophy from the University of Copenhagen and is a lecturer and researcher at “Health, Human and Society” at Aarhus University. Jesper is work package 2 leader in Bump2Baby and Me, responsible for: follow up on project milestones; assuring the innovative app and the involved theories of behavioral change will correspond naturally to 1) the needs of the mothers in the project and 2) the different cultural settings; the outcomes; and ensuring the health coaches help the mothers reach their health goals.

Camilla Sortsø

Team Member

Camilla is COO and Head of Science and Research at Liva Healthcare. Camilla holds a PhD in Health Economics from University of Southern Denmark (SDU), focusing on Economic impact of diabetes mellitus. Camilla has led several research projects focusing on the cost effectiveness of diabetes prevention and treatment interventions. In the Bump2Baby and Me project, Camilla will be involved in the research and intervention design, intervention delivery and evaluation.

Anna Cummings

Team Member

Anna Cummings is Coaching and Nutrition Development Manager at Liva Healthcare. She is a Registered Nutritionist (BSc, MSc, mBANT), with a decade of experience in the health coaching industry. Having worked across a variety of models – face-to-face, telephone and digital – she came to Liva from Roche Diabetes care, as their Coaching Development Specialist in the UK. In the Bump2Baby and Me Project, Anna will be assisting the implementation of the coaching model; from recruitment, training, coach support and supervision.