Healthcare Communication is Critical to Public Health
Mon, Oct. 11, 2021
By Thomas Graham
Accurate public health information can literally be the difference between life and death.
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Accurate public health information can literally be the difference between life and death.
How healthcare leaders can adopt a “pandemic mindset” that paves the way for the next wave of life-saving innovations.
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What the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us about the power of words, and how the language we use impacts patient behavior.
When it comes to closing health disparity gaps, healthcare communicators need to go big or go home.
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Former Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz has signed on as senior advisor at FTI Consulting’s strategic communications unit to counsel healthcare clients.
Finn Partners has named Richard Hatzfeld senior partner-global health and head of the DC offering, and Ritesh Patel as senior partner-global digital health.
Valerie Corr Hanserd has joined Medtronic, the $30B medical devices giant, after a 17-year run at bp America, where she helped manage the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil spill crisis.
Cristal Downing, who was VP-communications & PA at Johnson & Johson’s medical devices division, will join Merck Aug. 16 as chief communications and PA officer, a new post.
Crosby Marketing Communications wins a second consecutive five-year contract to provide strategic communications services to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
Finn Partners has upped Kristie Kuhl to managing partner & global health practice leader, succeeding Gil Bashe, who remains chair of the $35M unit.
Trine Hindklev, a Weber Shandwick and MSL Group alum, has joined FleishmanHillard as senior VP/global media lead for the health & life sciences group.
Here are some ways that health PR pros can navigate the issues of communicating complex science.
Edelman has recruited Pfizer UK’s corporate affairs director Emma Lynn as global health deputy.
Prime Policy Group is repping Britain’s AstraZeneca on COVID-19 vaccine matters as Team Biden plans to donate 60M of the British shots to India and other countries hit hard by the pandemic.
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Fee income at O’Dwyer’s Top 50 ranked healthcare firms grew 30.5 percent to $910.4M during pandemic 2020 as they scrambled to counsel clients on how to deal with the national medical emergency. The Top 10 firms boasted even heftier growth, soaring 34.5 percent to $760M. View overall ranking and charts by 19 PR specialties and 15 cities/regions >> |
Americans who are most resistant to receiving a COVID-19 vaccine cite a lack of critical information regarding vaccines’ safety and potential side effects, according to a recent study.
The US spends much more than any other country on healthcare—and the bill keeps on growing. How do we bring those costs under control? Reinventing how the system communicates with itself can drive efficiencies that can increase both ease of access and quality of care for more people in addition to saving money.
Weber Shandwick launches Plan Vx, an initiative to help business leaders get the message out about the COVID-19 vaccine.
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