Health PR
Join the bowel movement!
Bowel Cancer Awareness Month (formerly Bowel Cancer Awareness Week) is well underway. Now in its thirteenth year, the initiative aims to raise public awareness of a disease that claims the lives of 77 Australians every week. According to Bowel Cancer Australia, the disease is the second most common type of newly diagnosed cancer in Australia affecting both…
Read MoreLatest tool for pharma marketers now available
The latest version of a global tool that provides up-to-date information on pharmaceutical marketing, public relations and advertising codes across 16 countries, is now available thanks to our GLOBALHealthPR network. Now in its third edition, The Global Guide to Pharma Marketing Codes, provides guidance for responsible health care public relations at local and global levels.…
Read MoreFrom corporate responsibility to corporate sociability
Think back a few years and the buzz word of the business world was CSR (corporate social responsibility). In 2012, sustainability was on everyone’s agenda, but this year there’s been an apparent shift to sociability. Sociability relates to an organisation’s online presence and its level of online social engagement. It’s seen as a way of…
Read MoreInternational Men’s Health Week June 10-16 – ‘Health Snapshots’
Australian men have a higher death rate and lower life expectancy than Australian women. It’s a sobering statistic and one that International Men’s Health Week aims to address as it returns this year with a new theme – Health Snapshots. It will be a week of awareness and focus on the issues and opportunities faced…
Read MoreWhat ‘The Great Gatsby’ can teach us about PR
Team VIVA! recently attended the opening night of The Great Gatsby at a local Sydney cinema and inspired by an article we read, What ‘The Great Gatsby’ can teach us about PR, we have come up with our own analysis of what lessons the acclaimed 1920s novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald may hold for PR…
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