Top tips for WFH video calls

How to avoid faux pas & respect your fellow zoomies Working from home presents unique challenges and opportunities for those fortunate enough to be able to do so. Businesses and their employees are doing their best to navigate these unprecedented times, so it’s important to practice patience and respect. Here at VIVA! we are doing…

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What’s in a name? Coining history’s deadliest pandemics

Here’s some scientific nomenclature to help kick-start your Monday! For centuries before the advent of coronavirus, many contagions, including the Bubonic Plague, syphilis, smallpox and tuberculosis, claimed the lives of hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Ironically, many of these contagions were awarded a ‘rainbow’ of names. Syphilis – a bacterial infection commonly spread by…

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Dr Manju Chandran – inaugural Chair of the Asia Pacific Consortium on Osteoporosis (APCO)

Dr Manju Chandran, a leader in the fields of Endocrinology and Bone Metabolism, is the Inaugural Chair of the Asia Pacific Consortium on Osteoporosis (APCO). Dr Chandran currently serves as a Senior Consultant Endocrinologist and Director of the Osteoporosis and Bone Metabolism  Unit that she set up at Singapore General Hospital in 2007. After completing…

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The role of strategic communications in helping to navigate unchartered COVID-19 waters

Our very own VIVA! Communications Principal and owner, Kirsten Bruce, Sydney was recently quoted in pharmaceutical industry publication, Pharma in Focus on how to engage with staff while working from home during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Today, Kirsten shares further insights on how companies should communicate both internally and externally in this challenging, unchartered landscape.…

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