A standing layer of intelligence for complex public health decisions.
Complex decisions rarely arrive as neatly scoped projects. They emerge through funding announcements, executive requests, policy changes, delivery pressures, and incomplete evidence.
Percova Advisory gives your organisation a standing layer of structured public health intelligence when those decisions arise. We map each question against the disciplines it requires, activate the relevant analytical capability, and provide a clear route forward.
The gap between the question and the support.
Public health teams carry decisions that matter. Whether to redesign a service, respond to a funding opportunity, take a proposal to an executive, change a commissioning approach, or make sense of new evidence.
These questions often sit across several technical domains at once: epidemiology, implementation, health economics, clinical governance, equity, stakeholder engagement, and policy. Yet support is commonly fragmented. Teams either coordinate specialist inputs themselves, commission a standalone project before the question is fully formed, or proceed without the depth of review the decision deserves.
Percova Advisory sits in that space.
It gives your team a structured external layer for shaping, testing, and progressing complex decisions before they become larger pieces of work.
Not generic advice. A structured route to a defensible decision.
Your question, mapped properly.
Percova carries structured intelligence across more than 30 public health domains. Each advisory request is mapped against that capability matrix to identify what the decision genuinely requires.
We assess the dependencies between domains, sequence the work accordingly, and apply the relevant Australian evidence standards — including the NHMRC evidence hierarchy where intervention effectiveness is assessed — policy frameworks, regulatory context, and equity requirements from the outset.
For example, a proposed care model may require population-health evidence, implementation assessment, clinical-governance alignment, cost considerations, and an equity review. Percova brings those dimensions into one structured assessment rather than treating them as separate workstreams.
The result is a clearer picture of:
- ■What is known, uncertain, or missing
- ■Which technical and equity questions need to be resolved
- ■What can proceed now and what requires further work
- ■The most credible route to a decision
Every material request starts with a Decision Map.
The Decision Map is Percova Advisory's core working artefact. It makes the structure of a decision visible before time and resources are committed.
| Decision Map component | What it establishes |
|---|---|
| The decision | What needs to be approved, designed, changed, or tested |
| Context | Why the question matters now, including strategic, policy, funding, or delivery drivers |
| Domains activated | The public health disciplines the question requires |
| Dependencies | What needs to be resolved first and what can proceed in parallel |
| Equity checkpoint | Implications for priority populations, access, cultural safety, and social determinants |
| Evidence position | What is established, uncertain, or needs further verification |
| Recommended route | A practical next step, including whether a fixed-fee project is warranted |
The Decision Map is not a long report. It is a disciplined way to turn an emerging question into a clear and accountable work plan.
Designed for the work that does not wait for a project plan.
Percova Advisory supports the recurring decisions that are too consequential for an informal opinion, but too fluid or early-stage for a standalone commission.
Shape an emerging idea
Test a program concept, service model, commissioning approach, or policy direction before it progresses to detailed design.
Stress-test a decision paper
Review an executive brief, board paper, strategy, funding submission, evaluation plan, or commissioning document for evidence strength, implementation feasibility, equity, governance, and financial logic.
Respond to a changing context
Translate a policy release, funding announcement, evidence update, regulatory change, or emerging population-health issue into implications for your organisation.
Clarify the right next step
Identify what is needed before a decision can be taken: a rapid evidence review, local data analysis, stakeholder engagement, co-design, economic modelling, an evaluation framework, or a full fixed-fee project.
Strengthen existing work
Provide targeted review of a draft strategy, needs assessment, program logic, MERI framework, care pathway, tender response, or business case.
Prepare for scrutiny
Develop concise, evidence-grounded decision notes and review key arguments before they are taken to an executive, board, funder, or government agency.
The standards that sit behind every advisory response.
A short response should not mean a shallow one. Every material advisory request is assessed through the lenses relevant to the decision.
| Lens | What Percova considers |
|---|---|
| Evidence | Strength, relevance, transferability, and limits of available evidence |
| Implementation | Workforce, delivery conditions, readiness, risks, and practical feasibility |
| Equity | Implications for First Nations peoples, CALD communities, rural and remote populations, low-SES communities, people with disability, LGBTIQ+ people, older Australians, and young people |
| Governance | Clinical, ethical, regulatory, privacy, and accountability considerations |
| Economics | Resource implications, affordability, value, and whether further modelling is needed |
| System fit | Alignment with relevant policy, commissioning, service, and partnership settings |
Where work directly concerns Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, Percova treats cultural safety, community-led co-design, ACCHO governance, and Indigenous data sovereignty as structural requirements, not optional additions.
Every material advisory output is reviewed and signed off by a subject matter expert before it reaches your team.
Ongoing support when you need it. Defined projects when the work requires it.
Advisory is designed to make emerging decisions clearer and to strengthen work already underway. It is not a substitute for a properly scoped project where substantial analysis or delivery is required.
| Percova Advisory | Fixed-fee engagement |
|---|---|
| Decision reviews and strategic guidance | Health needs assessments and population profiles |
| Short evidence and policy interpretation | Program design and clinical care pathways |
| Review of existing drafts and proposals | Rapid evidence reviews and program evaluations |
| Brief shaping and scope definition | MERI frameworks and implementation roadmaps |
| Monthly prioritisation and structured support | Business cases, economic modelling, grants, and tenders |
If a request requires original primary research, substantial data analysis, stakeholder consultation, co-design, detailed modelling, facilitation, or a major deliverable, Percova will recommend a separate fixed-fee scope before that work begins.
Percova ensures the work is properly resourced, transparent, and fit for purpose.
Built for teams carrying complex public health work.
Percova Advisory is suited to organisations that face a continuing flow of strategic, programmatic, evidence, commissioning, or funding decisions.
We work with:
- ■Commonwealth, state, and territory health departments and agencies
- ■Primary Health Networks
- ■Local Health Districts and Hospital and Health Services
- ■Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations
- ■Non-government organisations and peak bodies
- ■Philanthropic and community funding organisations
- ■Community, primary, preventive, and digital health organisations
It is particularly valuable where internal teams have deep organisational knowledge and delivery accountability, but require an external layer of structured analytical depth at key decision points.
Structured around your decision cadence.
Each advisory partnership is tailored to the organisation's decision environment, priorities, internal capability, and expected volume of work.
All partnerships include:
- ■A commencement session to establish current priorities, stakeholders, decision cycles, and ways of working
- ■A defined monthly work plan, agreed with a nominated client lead
- ■A regular advisory cadence, typically monthly or fortnightly
- ■Decision Maps and short written advisory notes where needed
- ■Clear escalation from advisory support to separate fixed-fee project work when required
- ■Expert review and sign-off for material outputs
Advisory partnerships typically begin with a three-month term. This provides enough time to establish context, demonstrate value across several decisions, and build a working rhythm with your team.
A more structured route through complex decisions.
The most important public health decisions are not always the ones that arrive with a complete brief, allocated budget, and project plan.
Percova Advisory gives your organisation a standing way to ask the right questions early, bring the relevant disciplines together, and move forward with greater clarity. Have an emerging decision, an active program question, or a piece of work you want to test? Send us a note. We will tell you whether advisory is the right route, or whether the work needs a defined project scope.