Our History

It all started in 2003 at the Office of the Director at the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), where Lone worked as an epidemiologist and Rob as an analytical consultant. Their first collaboration was to help write an urgent research agenda to understand SARS.

"We found we worked very well together--we had a synergy that allowed us to easily bridge science and communication," Lone recalls. The two went on to write several more papers about influenza epidemiology, methodological challenges, vaccine adverse events, molecular epidemiology, pandemic influenza, and more.

"It was tremendously fun to work together, because our talents were perfectly complementary," says Rob. "We found that between us we could go from the most intricate science to getting the big picture across to policy makers and the public-all without missing a beat."

They formed SAGE Analytica when Lone left the government July 2007. They have been joined by new SAGEs with yet more complementary skills, and they're still having fun working for an expanding range of distinguished clients.