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67health
67health creates connections with purpose, guides long-lasting community engagement and drives consensus to empower people living with health conditions.
We are a team of experienced communications professionals who are united behind one vision: making the experience of health conditions better for more people. That’s what gets us up in the morning, because it’s our passion, it’s what drives us.
Our approach combines empathy, problem solving and a talent for reaching the heart of the matter quickly, to identify key tensions and reveal meaningful insights. Insights that allow us to both shape and uphold our clients’ strategies.
Through intentionally designed programmes and deep expertise, 67health sparks tangible, positive changes for people living with health conditions, their loved ones and healthcare professionals alike.
Visit www.67health.co.uk to find out more.
Arc Bio Communications
Arc Bio Communications exists to help pharma and biotech organisations maximise the value of their innovations. Designed to deliver the best of scientific, commercial and communications counsel, we combine the rigour and strategic capabilities of management consultancy, the scientific expertise of medical education and the creativity and reach of healthcare communications.
We partner with several of the world’s top 20 pharmaceutical companies as well as ground-breaking biotech organisations and help them to:
- Tell their innovation stories through leadership communications, medical and commercial strategy, positioning and narrative development
- Transform the innovation potential of their organisations through employee engagement, change activation and behavioural change
- Realise the value of their innovations for patients through brand and franchise positioning, commercial strategy and operational preparedness
Our team offers a unique blend of scientific knowledge, commercial experience and strategic communications expertise. Our approach is driven by our deep understanding of the relationship between innovation, leadership and reputation and the opportunities and pressures that are shaping the pharma and biotech landscape of today and tomorrow.
Our clients trust us with their most important innovation opportunities and challenges. In return, we give them strategies that deliver genuine return on investment, executed with exceptional quality by partner-led teams of industry-leading experts. We are clear-eyed and transparent about where we can add value to our clients’ innovation journeys and that is where we focus our work.
We seek out the most talented and inspiring people from across the life sciences, consulting and communications industries and create opportunities for them to learn and grow as part a company where diverse experiences are valued. We work collaboratively, with integrity and respect and are uncompromising in our support for our clients’ and colleagues’ success.
Aurora
We are an independent, integrated healthcare communications and marketing agency. Working across the health communications landscape from strategic consultancy, creative and branding, medical communications, patient engagement and digital channels, we are committed to improving lives by accelerating patient access to medical innovation.
Biotech companies, Pharma companies, charities, and health NGOs at the forefront of science rely on Aurora for equally progressive communications. Aurora fosters genuinely collaborative partnerships to deliver transformative thinking and flawless execution that leads to life-changing outcomes.
Aurora delivers impact for clients through our unique blend of strategy-first thinking and creative innovation. All of our communication work is grounded in science, human insight and optimised by data to resonate with the relevant target markets.
Our approach connects our service offerings together to ensure that deep insights, brilliant creativity and intelligent metrics are part of every programme.
With Aurora’s ability + agility, audiences are engaged and objectives are exceeded.
Underpinned, always, by excellence in client services.
Impact is guaranteed.
Get in touch at hello@auroracomms.com as we’d love to talk about how we can add value to your business.
Avalere Health
Guided by a single mission to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE, our Advisory, Medical, and Marketing capabilities move as one, ensuring every patient is identified, supported, treated, and cared for. Equally.
Avalere Health is a global strategic partner, perfectly formed to solve the biggest challenges in health—at pace and at scale. United across the product lifecycle, we are uniquely positioned to understand every angle of life, health, and the human condition. Partnering with our clients, we are building a world where healthcare is not a barrier. And no patient is left behind.
Avalere Health is powered by a unique and proprietary model, SenseMaking. Combining strategic tools and human ingenuity, SenseMaking allows us to transform limitations into pathways, obstacles into possibilities, and intricacy into action.
Our talented, diverse, and passionate team—known as SenseMakers—strive each day to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE.
Edelman
Driven by our values of excellence, curiosity and courage, we help organisations to show up differently – enabling them to launch life-changing medicines, introduce first-of-a-kind vaccines and share stories of innovation that change the world forever. With a deep-rooted knowledge of the health sector at our core and unique ways to gather insights, we communicate about developments that transform people’s lives, take on the world’s toughest health challenges and lead the debate about important policy and treatment issues.
Each year we measure levels of Trust both globally and across different industry sectors including health. The Edelman Trust Barometer is the largest global study of Trust in the world and has been running for twenty years. The pandemic is a pivotal moment for healthcare companies. To maintain these high levels of trust, companies must not only deliver on the public’s urgent needs – they also must demonstrate their commitment to society more broadly.
If you’d like to find out about how our experienced and award winning health team can help you or more about the Edelman Trust Barometer, please reach out to Eleanor.Read@Edelman.com
Healthcare Consultancy Group
HCG is the global healthcare communications partner for pharma and biotech that accelerates the impact of medical science.
At the convergence of people, purpose, science, and technology, we boldly define the healthcare communications landscape, driving the impact pharma needs to realize the promise of innovative medicines. Through deep understanding of scientific advancement and patient needs, we transform how healthcare information reaches and influences key audiences.
Our unique model of four Powerhouses brings together:
- Commercial & Marketing: Science-backed creativity that inspires action among healthcare providers and patients
- Medical Affairs: Transforming complex data into practical insights that guide clinical decisions
- Publications: Strategic scientific storytelling that cuts through information overload
- Regulatory: Expert guidance accelerating the path from discovery to approved treatment
This integrated approach enables hyperconnected, audience-centric engagement delivering measurable health impact for our clients. We unite expertise across disciplines to ensure scientific innovations translate into real-world patient outcomes. Our commitment to excellence drives meaningful change in healthcare delivery.
Why? Science requires it. HCPs demand it. Patients deserve it. Pharma inspires it.
Together, we move medicine closer to patients.
Together, we accelerate the impact of science.
Health Unlimited
Health Unlimited is an independent, integrated healthcare agency that thrives on solving tough problems with creative flare.
In a time when imagination is outsourced to the artificial, we blend real-world intelligence, solid science and fluid thinking to change established attitudes and influence behaviour.
We are passionate about:
- Early product development – evidence generation, landscape mapping and portfolio planning
- Medical education – stakeholder mapping, insight gathering, scientific strategy, congress executions, scientific editorial and training
- Patient engagement – awareness, co-creation, education, advocacy and activation
- Communications – product and corporate communications, thought leadership and content production
- Brand promotion – strategy, positioning, message development, creative and omnichannel
Changing health by changing minds
Our Human Understanding Lab powers our work, layering human insight over behavioural science frameworks to unlock deeper understanding of audiences.
Resolute on results
The programmes we design and execute start and end with results. From the ones we head towards at the outset to the ones of which we are proud in our outcomes.
Delivery with a difference
We bring the right people to address every challenge. Our creative team of expert problem solvers drive education, experience, action and change.
If you’re after compelling communications with a difference, we’re here to help.
IPG Health Medical Communications
IPG Health is a global collective of the world’s most celebrated and awarded healthcare marketing agencies. With nearly 6,000 people across 6 continents driven by a healthy obsession with harnessing creativity, technology, science, and data to inspire behaviors that fuel better health. With 50+ agencies, including 18+ specialized units, our integrated approach to the full range of communications capabilities helps clients improve outcomes and quality of life for people around the world.
Our unmatched Med Comms offering boasts seven specialized agencies that provide the full breadth of capabilities including publications, medical affairs, medical education, and regulatory writing. We are recognized globally for creating exceptional medical communications solutions that make science accessible, understandable and actionable.
In addition to our scientific expertise, we are proud to be globally recognized for our work, with accolades including “Healthcare Network of the Year” at Cannes Lions, Ad Age A-List, 2024 Communique “Medical Affairs Agency of the Year,” PharmaTimes Communications Awards for “Medical Affairs Communications Team of the Year,” 2024 Manny Awards “Med Comms Agency of the Year,” New York Festivals Health Awards, MM+M Awards and the Manny Awards.
JPA Health
Langland
Langland is an agency with over 240 experts who all believe in the power of different perspectives. No one person can know everything, but with teams of specialists working with clients who think differently too, our collective minds make work that sets new standards.
Our four interconnected specialisms – Clinical Trial Experience, Medical Strategy & Education, Public Relations & Engagement, and Advertising – cover all angles of health communications.
This close collaboration allows our clients to have the best minds in health caring for the most important parts of their business. Together, we can make science straightforward, unlock ideas that individuals cannot see, and create envy-inducing work that sets new standards.
Because when we think together, we think further.
M+F Health
M+F Health is an independent, integrated communications and public affairs agency.
Our work is meaningful, aiming to make a significant, positive impact on the health and wellbeing of the UK. We deliver on this every day through an unrivalled and deep understanding of the healthcare environment.
We approach every client brief with a forensic approach, dissecting the problem, rigorously researching, and applying our expert insight. We work with agility delivering complex briefs and building campaigns with impact.
We provide clients with a plethora of thinkers, and doers, uninhibited by silos and working collectively to tell stories and deliver messages in a cohesive and compelling way. We’re a team of public relations, policy and government affairs experts, traditional and social media specialists, communications strategists, writers, scientists, and crisis managers. We work brilliantly together, take great pride in our autonomous culture, and we’re passionate about what we do.
Proudly independent, we work on projects that inspire and excite us, and our clients span the breadth of the health and wellbeing sector. We work with pharmaceutical companies, consumer health organisations, social enterprises, tech platforms, patient organisations and med tech and diagnostics companies. And we win awards for our work.
Mearns & Pike
We do things differently.
Mearns & Pike specialises in connecting healthcare clients with their audiences—creating campaigns that engage both the heart and the mind, guided by a clear purpose: to place human connection at the core and embody love in everything we do. It’s more than a tagline—it’s how we choose projects, build relationships, and nurture a culture that values passion, compassion, care, and kindness. We don’t just want clients to love working with us—we want them to feel the love we pour into every strategy, story, and campaign.
Our agile, virtual model, born long before remote working became mainstream, allows us to bring expert, heartfelt work to life efficiently and flexibly. From household-name pharma giants to trailblazing health-tech startups and purpose-driven charities, our partners trust us to tell their health-related stories with heart—and that’s exactly what we do.
Since setting sail eight years ago, we’ve grown from a two-person crew to a fearless, award-winning fleet —consistently outthinking, out creating, and outperforming bigger agencies, with more than 50 award shortlists and a growing collection of industry accolades to show for it.
MHP Group
Obsidian
Obsidian is a specialist healthcare agency dedicated to medical & scientific communications. Obsidian is part of Clanwilliam, a global healthcare technology and services group whose vision is to improve healthcare for everyone, and as part of Clanwilliam, we are a more connected organisation that’s built on innovation.
At Obsidian, we are driven to continually evolve scientific communication, making it more efficient, accessible and impactful, and we are committed to our mission of transforming healthcare through scientific communications. We have a heritage of 20+ years, and our deep-rooted understanding and knowledge of the medical landscape and our ability to qualify, quantify and report the science enables us to challenge, adapt and transform how medical and scientific information is communicated.
We value the relationships we form, and we collaborate with our clients to fulfil their vision. We are committed to our clients’ success and the way we achieve success matters. We prioritise integrity, expertise and openness, while embracing change and growth in everything we do.
We are Obsidian and we are transforming scientific communications.
Open Health
OPEN Health unites world-class scientific, strategic, and creative expertise to solve complex challenges for biopharma. We are a flexible, global organization, creating high-performing strategic partnerships with our clients. We embrace our different perspectives and strengths to deliver innovative solutions that have a positive impact on commercial and patient outcomes.
OPEN Health unlocks possibilities across consulting, HEOR and market access, scientific communications, and patient engagement.
To learn more, visit www.openhealthgroup.com
OPRG
For health-focused decision-makers who need to elevate the power of communications at business-defining moments, OPRG HEALTH, part of Omnicom, is organised to build teams of specialists to deliver success that shapes the future.
We have more than 1,500 health communication specialists globally; our unmatched scale includes policy, advocacy, scientific comms, media relations, issues/crisis, analytics & digital and social experts.
We are leaders across the healthcare communications continuum. We offer:
• The industry’s most powerful proprietary audience intelligence stack, AI, tech & innovation capabilities.
• A ‘One door simple solution’ to access the depth and breadth of our category and therapeutic area scientific knowledge & capabilities across our regions.
• Full spectrum health policy, public health and government affairs consultancy in Washington D.C., Brussels and all key global markets.
• Proven commercial and societal success across a variety of industry challenges
• Experience in transforming how communication functions drive business success in today’s environment.
To learn more visit: https://teamoprg.com/
POP Health Communications
At POP Health, we believe the Power Of Partnerships can transform healthcare communications. We’re experts in creatively communicating science and forging professional chemistry, and we prioritise both, because when partnerships truly connect, they spark bold ideas, inspire advocacy, and deliver campaigns that pop.
“Bringing joy to life” isn’t just our tagline – it’s the purpose behind everything we do. From the relationships we build to the strategies we shape, joy is the driving force behind strong collaborations, clearer communications, and better outcomes.
We have you covered locally and globally, across all areas of healthcare communications. From strategy and disease awareness to patient advocacy, internal comms, corporate messaging, and issues management, we bring clarity, energy, and impact to everything we do.
Whether you’re a client looking for a fresh approach to healthcare storytelling or a communicator seeking a team where creativity and collaboration thrive, POP Health offers something different: a culture of connection, creativity, and commitment to making a lasting impact.
Let’s talk.
hello@pophealthcomms.com | pophealthcomms.com
Real Chemistry
Say Communications
SAY what matters most: Communications that solve marketing challenges
We are an independent, specialist HEALTHCARE AND MED TECH COMMUNICATIONS consultancy. Driven by insight, expertise and fresh thinking, our award-winning programmes are designed to solve marketing challenges and drive sustainable change, focusing on what matters to you, your brand and your audiences.
Our hybrid approach integrates the best of PR together with other comms disciplines to bring strategic, creative communications programmes to life across multiple channels. This means delivering impact, not just coverage; deeper connections, not just click throughs; adoption, not just downloads.
Services: We offer a full range of marketing, communications and public relations services, working for both UK and international clients: Integrated corporate, brand and internal communications programmes; product lifecycle communications; stakeholder engagement: KOLs, patients, influencers and bloggers; marketing and communications strategy; media relations and social media engagement; digital influencer programmes; content development; awareness campaigns; health start-up PR, comms and marketing support.
Areas of expertise: Pharmaceuticals; medical technologies; consumer health and wellness; patient advocacy groups; healthcare professional organisations; food and nutrition; public health and social care services. We are based in London, UK and are the founding member of the Plexus international network.
Syneos Health
Syneos Health Communications is a portfolio of innovative health-first, health-only advertising, branding, creative, medical communications, market access, and public relations agencies.
We are fiercely focused on creating platforms that allow our customers to bring life-changing healthcare solutions to the world. We are an unrivaled community sitting at The Heart of Health, operating at the intersection of technology, creativity, and humanity. As part of Syneos Health, we are powered by a global network of clinical and commercial minds engaged at every point of influence in health. By harnessing data, behavioral sciences, and storytelling with heart, we garner deeper, more actionable insights that drive behavior change. Our agencies include Addison Whitney, Biosector 2, BoldSky, Cadent, Chamberlain Healthcare Public Relations, Chandler Chicco Agency, GENICOS, GSW, Litmus, and SPHERICO. We work as scalable, collaborative teams that partner across disciplines and geographies to deliver integrated communications strategies that accelerate brand performance.
Virgo Health
Virgo Health is a leading global health communications and medical education agency. We combine deep knowledge and experience in high, science, clinical practice, and public health with the best in creative consumer marketing and branding – progressive, innovative and bold.
Beyond the regulation and complexity healthcare is an industry with people at its heart, which is why everything we do starts with our ethos, Being Human. It means understanding our clients and audiences as individuals to build powerful campaigns that earn attention in authentic, personalised and creative ways.
We’re passionate about helping people to make better decisions about health and wellbeing. Whether that is clinicians selecting the best treatment, patients understanding their disease better or empowering consumers to self-treat. Our services include corporate reputation, consumer health, issues management, employee engagement, creative medical learning, meeting facilitation, publication planning, social media, content creation, creative services and media and influencer relations.
We work with clients from our London and New York offices, but as part of Golin and the Interpublic Group we are also part of a bigger networked team that works on complex multi-agency, multi-market business.
We make no apology for boasting about our brilliant team and the great work we do, we are proud to be a Great Place To Work 11 years in a row and to have created one of the most awarded Healthcare PR campaign of 2020, culminating in the PRCA Campaign of the Year.
Weber Shandwick
As the earned-first global communications agency, we know that to earn value, you must contribute value. And in healthcare, what value means has changed. Health is no longer just a clinical category – it’s also a cultural force. To deliver value today, Weber Shandwick takes health out of its silo and brings it to where life happens.
From mental health to women’s health to the GLP-1 wave, health now shapes everyday conversation, headlines, politics, business and the economy. Yet while health evolves, the way it’s communicated hasn’t kept pace – often feeling disconnected from the world around us.
We blend deep scientific and healthcare expertise with insight from our consumer, corporate and public affairs teams to create work that lives in the real world – delivering value for people, including: communities, doctors, policymakers and investors alike. The result: wider reach, stronger relevance and deeper trust – all driving long-term commercial value for our clients.
Our work is powered by AI-backed analytics, strategic planning, award-winning creative and earned-first engagement – ensuring everything we create doesn’t just break through, but earns its place in people’s lives.
