What Facente Consulting does

Facente Consulting is a woman-owned public health consulting firm founded in 2009 by Dr. Shelley Facente, PhD, MPH, and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area (Richmond, California). The firm specializes in HIV, hepatitis C, harm reduction, substance use, and health equity, delivering strategic planning, program evaluation, needs assessments, facilitation, technical assistance, training, qualitative and quantitative research, theory of change development, and grant storytelling to health departments, government agencies, nonprofits, universities, coalitions, and international bodies.

The firm's core "product" is human-delivered professional services: nine full-time, uniformly credentialed (MPH/MSW) consultants pair directly with clients and augment capacity through partnerships with external experts such as Daigle Digital and the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation. There is no proprietary technology platform; service quality is delivered through senior practitioner involvement and customized work processes tailored to each engagement. Customer acquisition runs on RFP responses, referrals, RFP-and-relationship-driven direct sales, conference presence (APHA, NACCHO 360), a Substack newsletter ("What in the Health?!"), and Instagram-driven thought leadership.

Facente Consulting operates on a project-based professional services revenue model with quote-specific, non-public pricing. It is bootstrapped, with no disclosed funding rounds, parent company, or institutional investment. Client logos include CDC, California Department of Public Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health, WHO, UNAIDS, UCSF, Stanford Medicine, NASTAD, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, and Gilead Sciences; the firm reports 100+ completed consulting projects across its history and credits itself with helping clients secure millions of dollars in grant funding.

Name

Facente Consulting

Legal name

Facente Consulting

Website

https://facenteconsulting.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Facente Consulting is a woman-owned public health consulting firm founded in 2009 that delivers strategic planning, program evaluation, training, and research to health departments, government agencies, nonprofits, universities, and international bodies, with deep specialization in HIV, hepatitis C, harm reduction, and health equity.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Richmond

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Public Health Consulting Services: Facente Consulting generates revenue through providing professional consulting services to health departments, government agencies, nonprofits, universities, and coalitions. Services include strategic planning, program evaluation, needs assessments, facilitation, technical assistance, training, and data analysis related to public health topics such as HIV, hepatitis C, harm reduction, and health equity.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Facente Consulting is a woman-owned public health consulting firm that provides professional services including strategic planning, program evaluation, needs assessments, facilitation, technical assistance, training, and data analysis to health departments, government agencies, nonprofits, universities, and coalitions. The firm specializes in HIV, hepatitis C, harm reduction, substance use, health equity, and LGBTQ+ health topics, delivering services both remotely and in-person across the United States and internationally.

Product overview

Facente Consulting is a woman-owned consulting firm providing public health-related professional services rather than a software product company. The company offers a range of consulting services including strategic planning, program evaluation, needs assessment, formative research, meeting facilitation, training and technical assistance, qualitative and quantitative research, theory of change development, manuscript development, and community facilitation. These services are delivered to health departments, government agencies, nonprofits, universities, coalitions, and collaborations. The firm specializes in HIV, hepatitis C, harm reduction, substance use, health equity, LGBTQ+ health, and related public health content areas.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Public Health Consulting Services
• Understand: Population & Situational Analysis Services
• Implement: Program & Policy Implementation Support
• Tell Your Story: Training, Presentations & Grant Storytelling
• Meeting & Community Facilitation Services
• Manuscript Development & Research Support

Quantifiable outcome

• Helped clients secure millions of dollars in grant funding through effective storytelling to funders
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered supporting and core.

• Daigle DigitalsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with Daigle Digital and The Center at Sierra Health Foundation to create a series of short videos highlighting 10 different models of providing medications for addiction treatment (MAT) to support people with opioid use disorder in California.
• Desmond Tutu Health FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFacente Consulting worked with the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation to strengthen PhD training capacity among faculty and trainees at two of South Africa's designated Historically Disadvantaged Universities.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• JSI Research & Training Institute: JSI is a public-health consulting and research organization that supports government and nonprofit clients on HIV, hepatitis, harm reduction, and health-systems strengthening globally. Its mix of federal prime contracts, country offices, and technical-assistance offerings is the closest direct peer to Facente's model.
• Public Health Institute (PHI): PHI is a California-based nonprofit that builds programs and provides technical assistance across HIV, HCV, harm reduction, and global health — frequently in partnership with CA state and local health departments. Its domestic and international public-health programmatic TA scope closely overlaps with Facente's service lines.
• NASTAD: NASTAD is a national association that provides direct technical assistance, capacity building, and surveillance support to state HIV and viral hepatitis programs — and is named by Facente as both a partner (MAT/SSP standards) and a customer. Its TA delivery model in HIV/HCV is highly comparable to Facente's grant storytelling and program evaluation work.
• NORC at the University of Chicago: NORC is an independent research organization that conducts public-health research, evaluation, and survey work for HHS, CDC, and global health donors. Its evaluation, qualitative research, and technical-assistance offerings in HIV/HCV and behavioral health directly mirror Facente's consulting capabilities.
• Health Management Associates: HMA is a research and consulting firm focused on publicly funded health programs, including behavioral health, substance use, and state Medicaid populations. Its focus on harm-reduction-adjacent populations (opioid use disorder, MAT, behavioral health) makes it a comparable peer to Facente's strategic-planning and TA work.
• MEASURE Evaluation (UNC Carolina Population Center): MEASURE Evaluation is a USAID-funded project based at UNC that delivers HIV, HCV, and health-systems strengthening TA in PEPFAR countries. Its monitoring & evaluation and surveillance TA scope directly parallels Facente's recency assay and viral hepatitis work with WHO, UNAIDS, and CDC.

Broad incumbents

• RTI International: RTI International is a large nonprofit research institute with global health, infectious disease, and health-systems practices. Its federal contract vehicles and international delivery capability overlap with the CDC/PEPFAR and global health work Facente supports.
• Abt Associates: Abt is a large research and consulting firm with deep public-health practices serving CDC, HRSA, and global health funders. Abt competes for and subcontracts within the same HIV, harm-reduction, and health-equity RFPs that Facente pursues, making it both a competitor and a potential prime partner.
• Mathematica Policy Research: Mathematica is a large policy-research and evaluation firm that routinely supports federal health agencies on program evaluation, TA, and data analysis. It is a direct peer in evaluation and TA work for public-health agencies and competes for many of the same federal task orders.
• ICF International: ICF is a publicly traded consulting firm with a sizable health practice covering epidemiology, surveillance, behavioral research, and public-health program support for federal clients. Its federal contract vehicles and scale place it as a broad incumbent competing for the same CDC and state health-department work Facente targets.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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