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Underpinned by the aging population and ever-increasing health equity and access concerns, this market focuses on the growth of digital health and need for increased speed-to-market of new medicines – resulting in increased contract manufacturing to respond to demand for enhanced health system readiness.
Jacobs’ deep subject matter expertise across diverse scientific, infrastructure, environmental and digital domains in biopharmaceutical manufacturing, health governance, health infrastructure, and operations advisory provides market differentiation and distinct competitive advantage.
When it comes to health system and response challenges and life sciences, we’ll provide our best care so you can provide yours.
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100 +
healthcare projects representing over $45B in construction costs
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$ 1 B+
documented healthcare savings since 2005
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30 +
major academic medical centers
We’ve been working with healthcare providers and biopharmaceutical companies around the globe for more than 50 years and are the largest professional services provider to the biopharmaceutical industry. We have a detailed and nuanced understanding of their clinical, operational and business performance requirements and we understand the challenges they face in managing their healthcare environment today while planning for tomorrow. We leverage deep subject matter expertise across diverse scientific, infrastructure, environmental and digital domains, to deliver the very best solutions so they can bring their very best to the patients and families counting on them.
Don't just take our word for it though, Engineering News-Record ranks Jacobs No. 1 in both Healthcare facilities design and Pharmaceuticals.
Readiness, preparedness and systems for tomorrow
Health system governance
We advise governments, healthcare agencies and organizations on creating and implementing new pathways for effective decision-making, resource management and operational environments. We focus on system structure, policy frameworks, oversight mechanisms, financial models, healthcare coalitions and accountability.
Health operations advisory
We advise healthcare executives, service providers and corporate partners on pathways to remain people-centered, while making services accessible, affordable and integrated. We provide strategic, operational and digital advisory and implementation support to improve quality of care, optimize service delivery and enhance the safety of patients and healthcare workers.
Health infrastructure
We serve health system operators and providers, academic medical centers and research institutions and the world’s leading biopharmaceutical companies across the full asset lifecycle from funding, planning, design and procurement to construction, asset management, commissioning, and operations and maintenance. We provide end-to-end solutions that respond to our clients’ needs by delivering innovative facilities that are sustainable to operate and enhance economic, social and environmental outcomes.
Supporting critical infrastructure as part of the holistic health system
We work with critical infrastructure operators as they continue to evolve their understanding of the role they play in keeping communities healthy and well as part of a holistic health system, providing environmental, engineering, scientific and advisory solutions that support improved public health outcomes.
Life sciences
We’re proud to hold longstanding partnerships with the world’s leading Life Sciences firms. From designing a facility to manufacture transformative therapies, to accelerating the delivery of life-saving products, we help our clients solve their most important challenges.
Our aim is to give the best minds of today the platform to create the cures of tomorrow.
As our clients work to meet aggressive timelines, we strive to be the catalyst for innovation. We provide end-to-end project delivery from a trusted partner in a fast, smart and safe way – on time and within budget.
With more than half a century’s relevant experience to draw upon, this adds up to a total one-stop facility service for our clients.
Meet our team
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John Noble, General Manager - Life Sciences
John Noble challenges our teams to deliver solutions around the world adding innovation along-side best practice to deliver projects safely at an accelerated pace often in response to global health crises. As head of Jacobs’ Life Sciences business, John sees first-hand the benefit of the work we do – several Jacobs’ designed and built projects have manufactured therapies which saved family members lives.
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Nina Wollman, Vice President and Global Market Director, Health
Nina Wollman is responsible for elevating Jacobs’ capabilities in the Health market. This includes creating and implementing Jacobs’ Health market strategy, delivering a cohesive go-to-market approach, driving innovation and new solutions, recruiting and developing talent, and ultimately growing Jacobs’ presence in the market. Nina brings “an art of the possible mindset” to the Health market and is passionate about our ability to engage with clients and communities in a whole new manner creating solutions that enable well-functioning and thriving health systems that advance health, wellbeing and quality of life.
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Dr. Nino Kharaishvili, Global Solutions Director, Health System Governance
Dr. Nino Kharaishvili is a healthcare expert with working knowledge of 40 different countries across the former Soviet Union, Africa, south east Asia and Middle East. She has over 15 years of international healthcare consulting experience and has managed teams specializing in global health security, health system preparedness, disease surveillance, biosafety and biosecurity, program metrics and evaluation. Nino has a breadth of experience in defining paths for healthcare system sustainability and resilience, as well as designing and implementing various emergency preparedness exercises aimed at improving public health emergency preparedness and response.
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Matthew Holmes, Global Solutions Director, Health Infrastructure
Matthew is a chartered U.K. and French registered architect who leads Jacobs’ Global Health infrastructure business. After completing his professional training in the U.K., he worked in mainland Europe for 10 years working on a range of health projects. With the completion of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Clermont-Ferrand in France in 2011 he relocated to Australia where he has been instrumental in leading the Jacobs’ health advisory and design teams across a wide range of health projects across the world. His more recent work includes new facilities supporting the delivery of health services in rural locations across Australia, New Zealand and Kiribati through to the planning and design of major tertiary facilities such as the new Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide.
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Craig Miller, Global Solutions Director, Health Operations Advisory
Craig Miller is a seasoned industry expert with over 35 years of experience working with healthcare and hospitals, life sciences and higher education. His expertise spans operations, financial, technology, program management, construction, logistics and performance improvement. He spent over 20 years exclusively overseeing major healthcare portfolios and capital programs in excess of $1.5 billion across geographic regions. He has worked and consulted on major complex program initiatives at leading medical centers, including Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Denver Children’s Hospital, Denver Health, Rush University Medical Center, CHUM, UConn Health, Ochsner Health System, White Plains Hospital and most recently NYC Health + Hospitals Corporation.
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Bristol Myers Squibb Large-Scale Cell Culture Manufacturing Facility
Bringing life-saving pharmaceutical treatments to the market for tomorrow
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Spark Therapeutics, Corporate Headquarters & Research Facility
To meet the growing needs of its expanding business, Spark Therapeutics intended to develop a new Corporate Headquarters and Research Facility in downtown Philadelphia at One Drexel Plaza – a historic landmark building.
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Blacktown Mount Druitt Hospital
Jacobs delivered architectural work for the award-winning project to expand clinical, clinical support and non-clinical services at Blacktown Mount Druitt Hospital (BMDH) and the delivery of the COAG sub-acute beds program across the two campuses.
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Jacobs celebrates completion of largest surgical tower in Tampa, FL
To treat complex surgical cases needing state-of-the-art care, AdventHealth chose Jacobs to complete construction and project management for a $256 million surgical center in Tampa, Florida. The largest surgical expansion in Tampa Bay history, the new Taneja Center for Surgery opened in October 2021 and is the last phase of a five-year program that included a horizontal expansion to the existing parking deck and a doubling in size of the existing central energy plant.
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Christchurch Hospital Outpatients Building
Jacobs, in collaboration with our project partners, CCM Architects, delivered architecture, engineering and health-planning services under an integrated design model for the $45.5M Christchurch Hospital Outpatients Building.
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