Celebrating 23 years of strategic health communications at VIVA!
This week VIVA! Communications is celebrating 23 years of driving meaningful, health-focused communications across Australia & APAC & beyond. Over the past year, VIVA! has continued to grow. We’ve partnered with new clients, expanded our specialist health communications services, & strengthened our global presence as the exclusive Australian partner of Global Health Marketing & Communications…
GHMC healthcare network expands into South Korea, strengthening APAC footprint
July 16, 2025 Global Health Marketing & Communications (GHMC), which VIVA! Communications represents exclusively in Australia, today announced the addition of South Korean agency, PR Bom, to its global network. The agency is set to strengthen the footprint of GHMC – the largest & most robust partnership of independent healthcare agencies worldwide – in the…
💛 March into Yellow: raising awareness for endometriosis 💛
This month (March) represents ‘March into Yellow’ Endometriosis Awareness Month, which sheds light on this debilitating female health condition. 💛⭐ And today (March 28, 2026) marks ‘Endo Giving Day’ – a time to take action for those living with endometriosis. Endometriosis Australia will match every donation made to their organisation today,…
Living with Anxiety study
VIVA! Communications joined forces with researchers from QIMR Berghofer & the Sydney Brain & Mind Centre to launch the Living with Anxiety (LwA) study. The Aussie researchers are calling for 5,000 adult volunteers (aged 18+ years) diagnosed with, or treated for anxiety, for their groundbreaking anxiety disorders study. Anxiety disorders affect 3.4 million…
🌸 Happy International Women’s Day 2025 🌸
Saturday March 8, 2025 marks International Women’s Day 2025 – a day in which we celebrate every woman worldwide who helps to shape & inspire lives.🌏🌟 In 1908, 15,000 women in New York protested for better pay,…
🌟Welcoming our newest partner, Infinity Communications! 🌟
Team VIVA! are thrilled to extend a warm welcome to Infinity Communications, as the newest member of the Global Health Marketing & Communications (GHMC) family, the largest and most robust network of leading independent healthcare agencies worldwide. Based in Geneva and founded in 2019, Infinity Communications is a women-led agency providing specialist expertise for…
Australia’s National Autism Strategy: empowering change
The Australian Government has just launched its first National Autism Strategy – a seven-year initiative designed to create a ‘safe and inclusive society where all autistic people are supported and empowered to thrive’. The plan addresses barriers to inclusion for neurodivergent Aussies and aims to improve outcomes for autistic Aussies through targeted reforms. The strategy…
Delaying dementia: tackling Australia’s leading cause of death in women
Delaying dementia: tackling Australia’s leading cause of death in women Did you know dementia is the leading cause of death in Australian women, second only to coronary disease in men, with cases expected to more than double by 2058? Globally, 57 million people are living with dementia today, caused by the abnormal build-up of Lewy…
🎉 Happy New Year from Team VIVA! 🎉
As we welcome 2025, we’re excited to continue our journey in advancing healthcare communications. This year, we’re more committed than ever to making a genuine difference in the medical, pharmaceutical, biotech, community health + wellness & lifestyle sectors through meaningful healthcare storytelling & strategic partnerships. Thank you for playing a role in this exciting…
January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month 💙
💙 January marks International Cervical Cancer Awareness Month! 💙 Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer after breast cancer affecting women aged 15 – 44 years. Cervical cancer develops in a woman’s cervix, the lower part of the uterus or womb, which opens into the vagina. Virtually all cervical cancer cases (99 per…