ABOUT
RACHEL PASCAL
A health communications specialist for more than a decade. You’re in safe hands.
Experienced health and medical writer
You’re here because you need a specialist. Someone with the experience to take your health communications challenge off your hands.
You’re in luck.
With a portfolio that spans patient advocacy, policy and PR; advertising and traditional medical writing; all the way through to marketing and journalistic storytelling, Rachel might be the most versatile health and medical writer you’ll speak to today.
She’s worked for them all.
Top-tier pharma, patient advocacy organisations and health charities. Health tech start-ups, medical education specialists and clinical research giants. Businesses hoping to capitalise on years of health communications insight.
Health communications need an expert.
RACHEL'S
EXPERIENCE
Freelance Writer | Health, wellbeing and medical writing (2022-present)
- I work for a variety of clients in the health, medical and wellbeing space. Check out my portfolio to read writing samples and see what those clients say about me.
Havas SO | Healthcare PR, marketing, patient advocacy, and creative communications (2018-2022)
- Writing Team Lead
- Principal Medical Writer
- Senior Medical Writer
Raremark / Tudor Reilly Health | Patient-focused digital communications / clinical trial recruitment and retention (2017-2018)
- Content Manager
- Writer for TRH Communications
OmniaMed | Evidence-based HCP communications (2015-2017)
- Writer / Editor, Projects and Journals
PAREXEL | Strategic value communications for health products (2011-2015)
- Senior Associate, Strategic Communications
- Associate, Compliance and Quality Assurance (HERON Health, acquired by PAREXEL in 2013)
- Copywriter, CampInMyGarden.com, 2011
- Copywriter, Yell Adworks – 2010-2011
- Teacher / Editor – SPOL English Language School, South Korea – 2009
- Plain English-certified
- PRINCE2, Project Management
- Proofreading and Editorial Training, London School of Media and Journalism
- Introduction to InDesign, London School of Media and Journalism
- Philosophy and English BA (2:1), University of Bristol – with an interest in Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Science and Ethics, and Philosophy of Language
- Antibiotics / antibiotic resistance
- Oncology, including
- Gastrointestinal cancers, lung cancer (including ALK-positive, EGFR-positive), blood cancers, gynaecological cancers (including breast and ovarian)
- Living well with cancer, including exercise, nutrition, and mental health
- Hereditary cancers / predictive testing for cancer risk
- Brain metastases
- Infectious diseases, including
- Complex bacterial infections
- COVID-19
- Neurological illnesses, including
- Multiple sclerosis
- Epilepsy
- Metabolic conditions, including
- Diabetes
- Complications of diabetes (i.e. CKD)
- Rare diseases, including
- Sickle cell disease
- Cystic fibrosis
- IPF
- Haemophilia A and B
- Respiratory illnesses, including
- Asthma
- COPD
- Rheumatology, including
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Mental health
- Depression / paediatric depression
- Anxiety
- Veterinary health
- Women’s health, including
- Endometriosis
- PCOS
- Female fertility
- Wound care, including
- Diabetic wound care
- Burns
- Leg ulcers
- Wound care complications
Other healthcare topics
- Clinical trial recruitment and retention
- Digitisation of healthcare
- Patient health data
- Living well with chronic conditions
- Wellness and nutrition
testimonials
“Rachel is one of the best writers I’ve ever worked with.”
GETTING TO
KNOW
RACHEL
Rachel is a South-East-London-based mum-of-two, and wife (-of-one), with a love of writing and storytelling – especially stories about how we might live healthier lives in a healthier world.
She is a qualified yoga teacher, lover of reading (expect lots of popular science and crime fiction on that bedside table) and coffee-shop afficionado. She is a long-time coeliac and has been living gluten free for almost 20 years. In another life, she gained a black belt in Choi Kwang Do, having fallen in love with martial arts while living in South Korea.
On a Sunday night, you’ll find her drinking a G&T, eating a veggie curry and watching Death In Paradise (while dreaming of sunnier climes!) On a Monday morning, she’s ready for anything: mostly chasing around after her sons.
