Some good news to share - Bill and Melinda Gates swept into town last night to say thank you - to the U.S. taxpayer. At a talk last night in D.C. they spoke about the success of their Living Proof Project, a series of global health initiatives that are demonstrating measurable results by saving millions of lives. The Gates stressed the importance of U.S. funding of global health projects and actively sought to illustrate the results of the investments made and to illuminate the importance of public/private partnerships. To name just a few of the advances made: (more...)
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Annual Meeting, Global Perspective
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009April 2nd - 3rd, GLOBALHealth PR agency heads, including Spectrum's CEO and Chair of GLOBALHealthPR John Seng, met for the annual face-to-face planning meeting. Here is John's take on the trip.
I visited Italy with my colleague Rosalba Cano for the 8th Annual General Meeting of our GLOBALHealthPR partners, and hardly two days after the meeting ended in Venice, the earthquake struck the town of L'Aquila, which is much closer to Rome. (Martin Slater, the president of our Italy partner firm Noesis, suggested the Italian Red Cross among reliable relief organizations for readers interested in supporting assistance efforts.)
From Japan to the US to Latin America and throughout Europe, our partners connected to discuss our individual company performances for 2008, our prospects for 2009 and beyond, and to take a closer look at the different pharmaceutical approval and marketing regulatory environments for each of the 10 markets covered by GLOBALHealthPR worldwide.
For readers who don't know, GLOBALHealthPR is the largest health-focused network of independent public relations firms that collaborate on an international basis. Spectrum Washington is the network's headquarters. (more...)
