About Us

Vision

To be the premier global market research, strategy & regulatory consulting services partner to our valued healthcare clients.

Mission

Client Value

Junicon's goal is to develop long-term global partnerships with our clients. We are focused on excellent client service rather than new client acquisition.

Our clients have a direct relationship with one or more of our principals. Our management team works collaboratively to deliver our full range of global capabilities to each client.

We are confident of our ability to provide value to our clients, and we will not accept an engagement unless we are convinced that the value delivered will far exceed the project costs.

Client Satisfaction is an integral part of our corporate philosophy and our employee compensation program. It is our goal to delight our customers and continue to exceed their rising expectations with each engagement.

Employee Value

We recognize that customer satisfaction can only be driven by satisfied employees, and we continuously strive to maintain and improve our environment of mutual respect and cooperation throughout our organization. We attract and retain professionals who value teamwork above individual recognition, and demonstrate integrity and positive thinking in their professional and personal lives.

We have found it valuable to maintain an "open books" accounting policy. Monthly reports are provided to all employees.

Employees are given flexible options for working in a virtual office setting if they so desire. Supported by our commitment to fully integrated networks, some members of our team are able to improve their work efficiency and quality of life by working remotely.

We outline a clear career path and offer opportunities for equity partnership to top performers with a proven track record with the firm.

One of the policies we are most proud of is our equal compensation for all partners. In practice, this policy ensures cooperation at the highest levels of the organization and eliminates all conflicts over client origination and other performance metrics that tend to occupy conventional professional services firms. This policy generates collaboration and brings significant benefits to our clients.

Process Excellence

Our process of knowledge management ensures that we are leveraging knowledge throughout our organization, building on our capabilities through outside study and effectively managing our client relationships. We have processes in place that enable us to simultaneously be customer-focused and concentrate on the deployment and continuous improvement of our internal "best practices".

Shareholder Value

We charge a fair value for our services that enables steady growth of the corporation. However, we will not accept a client engagement unless the value to the client's business far exceeds our cost to deliver.

Our Cause

Junicon is dedicated to improving opportunities for children around the world by contributing volunteer hours and 5% of our global profits every year.

Junicon is a proud sponsor of Education Without Borders’ program to promote the rights of street children in the Dominican Republic

In the last 50 years, the Dominican Republic has experienced excessive growth, characterized by migrations from the countryside to the city. These migrations have caused uneven urbanization and the proliferation of shantytowns lacking the minimum sanitary conditions.   

The country is number 98 out of the 173 countries in the Human Development Index of the United Nations Development Program. In addition, it is one of the Latin American countries spending the least amount of public funds on education and health (1.2% and 1.9% respectively).

Due to a great increase in the last 20 years, there are close to 100 million children in the world currently living on the street. In Santo Domingo, many of them flee their homes in poor neighborhoods because of physical abuse (52.63%) or malnutrition (10%)*. Specifically, more than 55% of the Dominican population aged 12 years old and under, and 49% of the population aged 13-18 is poor**. 

Without any other options, these children on the street look for a way to survive, a place to work and their only source of income. In this environment, their most basic rights are violated. They can’t meet their basic needs adequately; they don’t have access to education, nor healthcare. They resort to petty theft to survive and travel in groups. All this causes society to reject them and, on many occasions, they are roughly mistreated and/or arrested arbitrarily.

The majority of boys, girls, and adolescents living on the street are male. Girls are much less visible because many are “recruited” by prostitution networks. Their ages vary from 7 to 17. Many of them buy and use drugs to forget their suffering and/or to calm their hunger. Their everyday reality is marked by indifference and exclusion.

Of these children, around 150,000 do not attend school. The main issues for these children are***:

  • Family violence
  • Rejection and social marginalization
  • Violence and a lack of safety in the neighborhoods where they live
  • Lack of communication
  • Poverty in their homes
  • Burden of domestic work

The goal of this project is to improve the protection of children’s rights in the Dominican Republic via their promotion, defense, and preservation. This project believes this improved situation would result from strengthening and enhancement of the direct attention/services given to street children via the incorporation of a focus on their rights; the strengthening of training/education and inter-institutional coordination on the national level; the creation of community prevention networks in high risk areas; and the consolidation of community consciousness raising and training. 

For this reason, the target population is made up of precisely boys, girls, and adolescents living on the street and the groups that are more involved in the promotion, care, and defense of children’s rights: teachers, mothers, community directors, government representatives, etc.  Various components are involved in this project (direct attention to and mentoring of street children, creation of networks, consciousness raising education, strengthening and/or consolidation of the organization). All these components are central or peripheral to the goals set out in this project.

Please see: http://www.educacionsinfronteras.org/es/97113 for more details.

* According to data from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean – CEPAL 2005.
** Data from a study on street children in the Dominican Republic conducted by Niños del Camino and the Center for Social Studies. P. Juan Montalvo (2001).
*** According to the National Consultation on the Rights of Children (2002) on 227 children aged 6 to 12.

Other Completed Projects

Junicon works with Education Without Borders to fight Chagas Disease in Bolivia. Chagas Disease affects between 16 and 18 million people, killing 50,000 annually. Bolivia is the country with the highest number of people affected: 13% of the deaths of people aged 15-75 years old in this country are due to Chagas. Approximately 50% of the country’s total population is at risk of contracting the disease. The infection rate in children younger than 5 years old reaches 11% in urban centers and 70% in rural areas.

During 2009, Junicon supported an initiative of Education Without Borders (ESF in Spanish) to control and reduce Chagas Disease in Bolivia.


One of the main goals of the program was the creation of Vector Information Posts (PIV in Spanish) and the training of leaders to occupy these posts, both in the community sphere and in schools. These Information Posts allow schoolchildren, their families and all inhabitants of local communities to benefit from a unified reference point for everything related to the disease. By being linked with the primary healthcare system, the Information Posts publicize places where free diagnosis and treatment are available for children under 15 years of age.

28 nearly self-sustainable PIVs were created through this project and improvements including coordination between municipal authorities for Health and Education were made to over 150 PIVs nationwide. Publications were designed to educate about the disease, its control, and prevention. These were used in training, distributed among the local population and made available at PIVs.

In addition, the program monitored the sustainable maintenance of structural improvements in housing. A presumed 80% of Chagas infections are a result of the bite of the vinchuca, an insect that lives in the cracks of walls and/or straw roofs of adobe housing. This insect is mainly found in rural areas and in poor urban neighborhoods in Latin America. Improved housing cuts down on the proliferation of the vinchuca and the subsequent infection rates.

Lastly, grassroots organizations involved in the initiative strengthened their negotiation and organization skills, increasing the self-sustainability and success of the program over the long run.

Junicon is proud to have been a part of this successful project. Please see: http://www.educacionsinfronteras.org/es/53589 for more details.

Other completed Projects:

Rob Claar of Junicon at the opening ceremony for a new school outside of Kathmandu, Nepal.

Stephan Eichholz of Junicon at the opening ceremony of a nautical school in Paraty, Brazil.

Our Current Project

Junicon and ESF are currently studying ways to continue working together in 2010. For more information, please contact: Maria Carroll at +34-93-432-5732 or via This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it