About us
Renaud Laune
Founder and Managing Director
Renaud founded H-Research Asia in 2015 and leads all client projects, bringing over 20 years of healthcare research and consulting experience across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the United States.
He has held senior leadership roles at major research agencies and has personally conducted hundreds of interviews with healthcare professionals, payers, and government officials across the region. His academic background in statistics and economics, combined with formal training in market access (EMAUD) and an MBA in Marketing, enables him to bridge clinical complexity with commercial strategy.
Renaud works with a core team of research professionals based across Asia-Pacific, each bringing deep market knowledge and established healthcare networks.
Why H-Research Asia was founded
For years, Renaud worked at established research agencies in the US, UK, and Singapore, involved in every stage of client projects—from understanding business questions to conducting fieldwork to presenting recommendations.
As agencies consolidated and grew, projects became compartmentalized. Different teams handled proposals, design, fieldwork, analysis, and reporting. This improved efficiency but created a problem: insight got diluted at every handoff.
The person presenting findings hadn’t conducted the interviews. The analyst interpreting data hadn’t been in the room with clinicians. Context that shapes interpretation disappeared.
H-Research Asia was founded to work differently: researchers involved from start to finish, with no handoffs and no dilution.
Our approach
We’re a boutique consultancy working across pharma, medtech, and consumer health in Asia, with significant experience in oncology and ophthalmology.
Direct partnership
The senior researchers you meet at the start are the same people who conduct fieldwork, analyze data, and deliver insights. This continuity means better understanding of your business question and more accurate interpretation of findings.
Agility
Fewer layers mean faster decisions. When market conditions shift, regulations change, or fieldwork reveals unexpected findings, we can adjust study design quickly. We keep you informed and adapt together rather than following a rigid plan that no longer fits reality.
Deep specialization
We focus exclusively on healthcare in Asia-Pacific. This means understanding not just research methods but local regulatory environments, healthcare system differences, and how clinical practice varies across countries.
Customised approaches
Standard research templates don’t work when each market has different payer systems, prescribing practices, and patient access challenges. We design studies specifically for your therapeutic area and the markets that matter to your business.
Focused attention
Your project isn’t competing with dozens of others for senior time. Researchers stay deeply involved because we deliberately limit how many projects we take on. This means thorough analysis, thoughtful recommendations, and answers when you need them.