See this report produced by consulting firm Price Waterhouse Coopers as a lobbying document for a pharmaceutical company.
tldr: This is an example of a report produced by a consulting company to sway government towards a set of policies. Most of the policies align extremely well with funding SequenceME.
So, liaising with a consulting company that has already written the sort of words you need might be a way to get an effective report written. The example report was funded by a pharmaceutical company - they have a foundation that might sponsor the writing of a repot about the benefits of SequenceME.
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I think the PWC report is interesting in relation to this query because it shows how interest groups use the consulting firms to make arguments that can be used to lobby government and influence decision-makers - and they are. I've seen PWC Australia reports influencing health care strategy in New Zealand.
I think the report has also got a lot of arguments that are useful to support investment in SequenceME +LC. It's not just medical costs and welfare benefits saved and taxes paid by people who are back at work. Completing SequenceME +LC also gives pharmaceutical companies something to work with, to start to work on therapies. That can build industries.
Genomics is enormously trendy, so is AI which I imagine is part of the analysis process somewhere along the way. SequenceME+LC is leading edge technology enabling precision medicine, positioning the UK and its pharmaceutical companies to tackle a health condition of enormous global consequence. Yes, I know, most of that is buzz words. It doesn't matter, it's also mostly true.
I reckon it could be worth reaching out to Bristol Myers Squibb UK and the team at PWC who put this report together. They might have some connections and advice. They might even be willing to fund a report (Bristol Myers Squibb has a Foundation).
You aren't begging for funding - you are offering the government an opportunity to get involved in something exciting, something that could be a cornerstone of the UK's life science ambitions.
One of the identified priorities
"The UK should look to integrate both traditional and non-traditional health care datasets including genomics, phenomics, patient reported data, lifestyle data and wearables....
And SequenceME+LC has that impressive pedigree in patient engagement, it's a massive asset for a project dealing with people's most personal and revealing data
The report says "There is also room for greater citizen engagement with data and AI programmes to reduce misperceptions and improve trust'.
"Not only do patients need to be engaged in their own heath care so that they have the best chance of living longer and healthier lives, but also the public needs to be involved in policy development and system design. From identifying unmet needs to prompting academic research to improve access to medicines, more needs to be done to engage patients and improve their health care experiences as well as they health outcomes."
'Additionally, a skills gap is emerging caused by the difficulties attracting and retaining healthcare-related data scientists and there is a lack of diversity in both the data analysed and the data scientists that conduct the analyses'
Not in Chris' team there isn't.
You've got a terrific story, totally aligned with everything that governments get excited about these days. I reckon it would be worth talking to companies like Pricewaterhouse Coopers - find the staff who have already written the sorts of words you need. I think if you find the right staff member, they will love DecodeME and SequenceME - it has the makings of a fabulous case study on a PwC report.
I think it could even be worth contacting Bristol Myers Squibbs and pharmaceutical companies like them to see if they would sponsor the report, or perhaps even make a donation to the project itself.
If you can get a few organisations like that on your side, I think the millions needed might suddenly become quite achievable.
