VIVA! Communications supports Epilepsy Foundation program
In August 2013, VIVA! Communications offered pro-bono support to the Epilepsy Foundation to encourage Novocastrians living with a disability and epilepsy, their families and carers to attend their free ‘Epilepsy Know Me, Support Me’ event via local media and community outreach. Novocastrians will be among Australia’s first communities to benefit from the DisabilityCare Australia-funded program,…
VIVA! Communications clinches best PR Campaign at premier pharmaceutical industry event
Last week we were honoured at the peak pharmaceutical industry ‘PRIME Awards’ with a highly-coveted Public Relations accolade. Together with our client, bioCSL, we won the best ‘PR Campaign’ award for our highly innovative and integrated travel vaccines communications campaign entitled ‘Urging globetrotters, health professionals and travel consultants to prioritise travel health.’ We also featured…
Don’t be lax about bowel cancer facts
New campaign sends clear message to men about spreading the word on screening A new bowel cancer awareness campaign has emerged with an extra challenge that goes a step beyond the all-important message of screening. The Bowel Cancer Screening Challenge: Do You Have The Guts? campaign is running in community pharmacies and encourages people, in particular…
World Rabies Day 2013 is fast approaching!
It is the sum of every individual event, large and small, that makes World Rabies Day a global movement Saturday, September 28, 2013 marks the sixth annual World Rabies Day, co-sponsored by the Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). World Rabies Day aims to raise awareness…
Get h-APP-ening
How smartphone apps can improve your health and wellness There is no doubt smartphones have changed the flow of communication. But the question is, how are hand held devices allowing us to be proactive and educated about our own health? Not only are consumers being spoilt for choice by the surplus of apps available, the…
Newcastle the starting point for stronger epilepsy support
Newcastle is among the nation’s first communities to benefit from DisabilityCare Australia, the national disability insurance scheme, kicking off with an epilepsy forum today. Novocastrians living with disabilities and epilepsy, their families and disability organisations will have the opportunity to participate in the ‘Epilepsy Know Me, Support Me’ program to be canvassed at Noah’s on…
Guild tackles PBS price battle head-on
With the country in the midst of (or trying to avoid) election fever, it feels as though Australians are being asked to throw their support behind one party or another. But despite the promises being made by the country’s political parties, big and small, there’s another battle for consumer support taking place in Australian pharmacies.…
Getting thrown into the deep end, hoping to swim!
Getting thrown into the deep end, hoping to swim! My first two weeks at VIVA! have shown me some of the specialist skills required to operate in health + wellness public relations. I was thrown into the deep end as my previous communications internships were in consumer-driven environments. By the end of my first day…
GLOBALHealthPR boosts Twitter presence
GLOBALHealthPR partners love to actively participate, and contribute to, social media chatter. So, it’s no surprise that we have come together to run a dedicated @GLOBALHealthPR Twitter page. GHPR’s global presence We are now tweeting daily on relevant pharmaceutical, healthcare and science developments. Feel free to take a moment to follow the @GLOBALHealthPR…
Mummy blogs best
Forget about journalists, it’s bloggers that PR companies need to cultivate nowadays. As mentioned in past VIVA! blogs, journalists – especially health journalists – as we know them are a dying breed with the shrinking newsroom. This has helped pave the way for the rise of the ‘blogger’. Bloggers are not a particularly new phenomenon. The…