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Nancy Turett |
Nancy Turett, who founded and led Edelman Global Health and its Health Barometer, has joined APCO in New York as executive director.
After a 24-year run, Turett left Edelman in 2012 to serve as principal of WholeView, advising corporate and NGO officials on personal and public health issues.
It has partnered with the World Health Organization, United Nations, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Harvard University, Columbia University and Merck.
Turett also was media relations and PA director at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
At APCO, she reports to global president Evan Kraus.
A breakthrough is not successful merely because it works. It succeeds when people and health systems can actually use it.
Jim Weiss, founder & chairman of Real Chemistry, has joined the board of ICR Inc. as it steps up its healthcare capital markets offering.
Ruder Finn has hired Kelly Yoder, who spent a dozen years at Weber Shandwick rising to North America health lead, as managing director, global head of health & life sciences.
ICR has named John Capodanno head of US healthcare corporate communications and Matthew Willey managing director in its medical technology and diagnostics practice. 
April is National Minority Health Month, spotlighting the urgency to improve health outcomes in communities of color.
