Innovative Patient Advocacy Consulting

Discover how strong patient advocacy programs and partnerships
can advance your organization’s collective corporate and advocacy goals.

How We Can Help

Strategic Partnerships

We unite patient advocacy professionals and organizations to build strong relationships and foster communications that allow them to deliver a better patient experience and minimize health disparities

Leadership Consulting

Traditional patient engagement methods can directly result in silo relationships among healthcare leadership. Seize the opportunity to have a meaningful impact on all of your stakeholders with our patient advocacy consulting services.

Training & Education

Awareness, education, and initiatives advance health equity and engage a broader spectrum of stakeholders. By facilitating roundtables, webinars, patient workshops and various other programs, we give all voices a platform to be heard.

Links2Equity disrupts health disparities

Links2Equity provides strategic consulting services to support patient advocacy efforts by identifying innovative and engaging solutions to advance patient engagement and issue prioritization with advocacy leaders, patients, professional societies, bio-pharmaceutical industry, insurers, and corporations.

Our Approach

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Relationship Building

Develop partnerships that efficiently meet your patient’s needs.

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Strategic Planning

Build long-term success for your organization and stakeholders.

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Stakeholder Mapping

Discover insights about the people your products were built to serve.

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Meeting Management

Generate innovative ideas and that advance corporate goals.

About Us

Deanna Darlington is an Advocacy Relations Professional with more than 25 years of experience in healthcare who specializes in engaging patient advocacy organizations on access and policy issues which includes a focus on health disparities for vulnerable patient populations. She founded Links2Equity in 2021 after retiring from Amgen Inc. with the goal of serving patients and other healthcare stakeholders in all disease states and underrepresented communities such as Black, LatinX, Asian Pacific Islander, Aging, Rural, LBGTQ, and others.

Words from Our Stakeholders

"It has been a true pleasure to work with you these past few years. Under your leadership, we have been able to strategically launch programs that have a positive impact on millions of women. You have put together some of the most thoughtful programs and events that we in the advocacy and alliance space truly looked forward to attending to hear new ideas and perspectives from other organizations and thought leaders..."

"Thank you for all you have done for patients and especially patients that are disadvantaged. You have helped so many during your professional career. I hope you keep being an advocate for patients."

”I have learned a tremendous amount from listening to you and feel so lucky to have had the chance to work with you over these several years. Thank you for all of the great work you have done on behalf of patients and the patient community. You have helped us all do our best in all we do and think hard about how we can do better when it comes to addressing disparities with your incredible yearly summits.”