Healthcare & Life Sciences

Dialing Up Digitalized Healthcare

Lord David Prior, the former Chair of NHS England and currently Deputy Chairman of Lazard UK Financial Advisory, believes combining biological and data science can transform healthcare systems from “sick care” to precision public health. By Ben Hirschler and Ayesha Bharmal.

By Ayesha Bharmal
13 December 2022

ESG Check-Up: A New Era for Healthcare?

How companies articulate their ESG agenda matters more than ever. For the healthcare sector, which is experiencing a period of rapid change in its ESG fortunes, the issue is increasingly important.

20 September 2022

Healthcare is Disproportionately Susceptible to Extortion

Few doubt that managing down technology risks is critical to the development of effective and efficient healthcare.

By Paddy McGuinness
24 August 2022

A Vaccine Expert on Miracles, Misinformation and Missing Data

The Executive Director of Vaccines Europe sees cause for celebration—and concern.

By Francesca Scassellati Sforzolini
27 July 2022

Trial & Error

Clinical trial diversity must improve to ensure drugs work for all.

By Ben Hirschler
25 July 2022

Health Meets Tech at the 2022 STAT Summit

Leading healthcare publication STAT recently convened its annual Health Tech Summit on the Embarcadero in San Francisco.

By Jennifer Sukawaty
27 June 2022

Every Business Is Now a Healthcare Business

Takeaways From FORTUNE Brainstorm Health 2022

By Jennifer Sukawaty
24 May 2022

A Public Health Leader on COVID's Lessons

Former US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams talks with Brunswick’s Ninio Fetalvo.

By Ninio Fetalvo
18 May 2022

China Doubles Down on Healthcare

China faces mounting economic challenges. Yet even as growth slows and supply chains are disrupted by geopolitics and the struggle to contain COVID-19, improving the health of the country’s vast population remains a high priority.

By Yi Zhou
28 April 2022

How COVID-19 Has Changed Healthcare Communications

The COVID-19 pandemic has moved the goalposts in healthcare communications.

18 April 2022

The Next Pandemic: Applying the Lessons of COVID-19 to AMR

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown we must be better prepared for health threats right across the global healthcare architecture – spanning governments, civil society, philanthropy and industry.

By Ben Hirschler
21 March 2022

Health in Mind

From handling mental illness, the business focus has switched to creating mental health. Poppy Jaman OBE, CEO of the City Mental Health Alliance, speaks to Brunswick’s Ann-Kathrin Richter about her life’s work.

By Ann-Kathrin Richter
15 March 2022

Healthcare's Data Tsunami

Health data can save lives, but protecting privacy is critical for public support.

By Ben Hirschler
23 February 2022

Success that Doesn’t Crush Your Soul

“If you want to go to the edge, particularly for a long time, you better be kind to yourself,” says best-selling author and performance coach Brad Stulberg.

By Edward Stephens
18 January 2022

Faster Vaccines

Quicker development and improved access are critical to preparing for future disease outbreaks. The good news is we now have a blueprint, says Brunswick’s Ben Hirschler.

By Ben Hirschler
15 November 2021

News Alert

Why healthcare communications will never be the same. By Raul Damas.

By Raul Damas
15 November 2021

The Marginal Revolutionary

On COVID, renowned economist Alex Tabarrok takes no pleasure in saying he told us so. By Raul Damas.

By Raul Damas
14 July 2021

A COVID Dividend

Scientific success during the pandemic is a shot in the arm for UK biotech.

By Ben Hirschler
15 June 2021

Critical Moment

As a child in Gloucestershire, England in the 1760s, Edward Jenner, creator of the first widely used vaccine, overheard a dairy maid say, “I shall never have smallpox because I have had cowpox. I shall never have an ugly pockmarked face.”

By Carlton Wilkinson
23 December 2020

Testing Times

Brunswick’s Ben Hirschler describes taking part in a COVID-19 vaccine trial as part of the historic global effort to halt the disease.

By Ben Hirschler
27 October 2020

Force of Nature

Christy Brown, widow of the late CEO of family-run Brown Forman, wants to change the world through an emphasis on health. Brunswick’s Carlton Wilkinson reports.

By Carlton Wilkinson
14 October 2020

Streamlining the Virus Fight

A team of Oxford researchers led the world in identifying successful treatments for infected COVID-19 patients and offer a model for the future. By Ben Hirschler.

By Ben Hirschler
22 September 2020

Safer, Cleaner, Cheaper

Greg Murray, CEO of KOKO Networks, spoke to Brunswick’s Kirsty Cameron about how conscious capitalism can build a better world.

By Kirsty Cameron
15 September 2020

Silicon Valley's Hall of Fame Swimmer

She entered the water hoping to regain her mobility. She became a record-breaking aquatic marathoner. By Craig Mullaney.

By Craig Mullaney
10 September 2020

Race Against Time

The pharmaceutical industry is seizing the moment to both help lift society out of the pandemic and rebuild its own reputation. The clock is ticking. By Brunswick’s Ben Hirschler and Jeremy Ruch.

By Jeremy Ruch
28 August 2020

By Drone or By Dromedary

Chemonics International reimagined a global health supply chain that enables medicine to reach the most remote corners of the world. The firm’s CEO, Jamey Butcher, spoke with Brunswick’s Stewart Jones, a former Chemonics employee.

By Stewart Jones
18 August 2020

A Watershed for Mental Health

COVID-19 has changed the conversation about mental health in business. Brunswick’s Meaghan Ramsey and Jon Miller challenge companies to consider their “footprint.”

By Jon Miller
04 August 2020

COVID-19 Tomorrow

How will the pandemic continue to change our lives in the coming months? Brunswick’s Nik Deogun hosts a panel discussion with the Dean of Stanford Medicine Lloyd Minor and Brunswick public health policy expert Lanhee Chen.

By Nik Deogun
29 July 2020

Monitoring Vital Signs in the US

The US healthcare model is suffering COVID-related side effects, says Brunswick’s Raul Damas. That creates significant risks, but it could also bring some benefits.

By Raul Damas
24 July 2020

Healthy Debate

Campaigns to change public behavior often meet resistance. The UK effort to link cancer and obesity highlights the good and bad in provoking a little outrage. Brunswick’s Ben Hirschler reports

By Ben Hirschler
29 May 2020

Waste that Costs an Arm and a Leg

In a story sure to bolster your belief in the problem-solving abilities and heart of humanity, these young entrepreneurs created a way to bring discarded prosthetics to amputees around the world. By Beatriz Garcia & Kevin Helliker.

By Kevin Helliker
08 May 2020

The fight against COVID-19: How the major pharmaceutical companies are responding

Pharma companies are contributing to the fight against COVID-19 on multiple fronts COVID-19 has thrust the global life sciences industry centre stage.

By Charis Gresser
04 May 2020

India Epicenter

One state’s readiness could serve as a model for the nation and the world. “Coronavirus Slayer” K.K. Shailaja, Kerala’s Health Minister, talks to Brunswick’s Khozem Merchant.

By Khozem Merchant
22 April 2020

A Physician's Physician

Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb talks to Brunswick’s Raul Damas about the evolution of medicine in the US.

By Raul Damas
25 March 2020

Feed the World

The head of the UN’s World Food Programme talks to Brunswick’s Robert Moran about the role of business in global food security.

By Robert Moran
22 January 2020

Drawing the Line on Deforestation

Helmy Othman Basha, Managing Director of palm oil producer Sime Darby Plantation, talks with Brunswick's Lucy Parker about transparency as the front-line of transforming the industry.

By Lucy Parker
22 January 2020

Lifeline

When Sierra Leone was in the throes of the deadly Ebola outbreak, Africell mobilized a comprehensive response. Brunswick’s Sam Williams talks to the CEO.

By Sam Williams
22 January 2020

Medicine Where Needed

Takeda stood out on the Access to Medicine Index by jumping from No. 15 in 2016 to the No. 5 slot in 2018. To get the story behind that, Brunswick’s Ben Fry and Will Carnwath interview Takeda’s Dr. Susanne Weissbaecker.

By Will Carnwath
22 January 2020

Climate Geopolitics: The Data

Brunswick’s Jon Miller looks at the climate science and potential impacts.

By Jon Miller
22 January 2020

The Climate Leaders of the Future

Cities, citizens and corporations are stepping into a climate leadership void, says Brunswick Geopolitical Principal Lord Charles Powell, former Private Secretary and Advisor to two UK prime ministers.

By Lord Charles Powell
22 January 2020

Geopolitical Impact

Climate change is redrawing the map, not just of the physical world, but the political and economic.

22 January 2020

Second Annual Global Retail Investor Views on Healthcare

Brunswick conducted a survey of US investors to understand their views on the healthcare sector, the pace of innovation, and the risk of regulation.

By Raul Damas
03 December 2019

Making Waves

Scientist, ocean conservationist and social entrepreneur Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson tells Brunswick’s Preston Golson and Liz Dahan about corporate action and transparency needed in the climate crisis.

By Liz Dahan
18 September 2019

Critical Moment

Unearthed in the 1980s, statues from a transitional period of pre-history reveal the human experience in its most enduring aspects.

By Carlton Wilkinson
18 September 2019

Unbroken: Mark Pollock

“Sometimes we have the luxury of choosing our challenges and sometimes they just choose us,” Mark Pollock says. “What we decide to do next is what counts.” His story, shared with the Review last year, offers timely perspective and wisdom on enduring life’s unexpected disasters.

By Kevin Helliker
04 June 2019

The Two Sessions and Implications for Healthcare in 2019

On Friday March 15 China’s most senior political leaders wrapped the two week annual gathering of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Congress (CPPCC).

By St. John Moore
25 March 2019

The human cost of data unshared

A data entrepreneur inside the UN, Robert Kirkpatrick talks to the Brunswick Review

15 October 2018

Endangered species

Kyle Pope of the Columbia Journalism Review compares the “death spiral” of local newspapers to a public health crisis.

By Kevin Helliker
15 October 2018

Healthcare oracle

Richard Evans tells the Brunswick Review about the process of prediction that made him a top healthcare analyst

By Raul Damas
15 October 2018

Worthless value

Professional shorthand is great – except when your audience doesn’t know what it means

11 June 2018

A higher high-tech calling

Philips’ Carla Kriwet explains how the firm competes with Silicon Valley for top engineers

By Kevin Helliker
11 June 2018

Welcome to the jungle

Zoetis CEO Juan Ramón Alaix speaks about leading an animal health company to a $2.2 billion IPO and facing down an aggressive activist

By Raul Damas
07 March 2018

Global Investor Views on Healthcare

J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference 2018

By Raul Damas
10 January 2018

Employee-free hospitals

Cleveland Clinic CEO Dr Delos Cosgrove talks with Brunswick’s Anita Scott about better healthcare through teamwork

06 November 2017

Catch that buzz

President Hiroshi Ishino tells Brunswick’s Daisuke Tsuchiya how innovation and traditional values are the drivers of Kansai Paint’s global success

By Daisuke Tsuchiya
28 June 2017

Four centuries, one family

A single family has led Merck KGaA from medicinal herbs to immuno-oncology, says Walter Huber, Director of the Merck Family Foundation

28 June 2017

Chief Exercise Officer

Former Chief Executive of the TCS New York City Marathon Mary Wittenberg tells Brunswick’s Kevin Helliker about hard work, fitness and knowing when to pause

By Kevin Helliker
28 June 2017

The Unforgiving Minute

After graduating from the US Military Academy at West Point, Craig Mullaney (co-author of “The road to digital leadership,” Page 61) attended US Army’s Ranger School, a course legendary for testing soldiers’ mental and physical limits. The following excerpt is from his best-selling memoir of his experiences as a student

28 June 2017

Live forever

It’s hard to ignore Silicon Valley’s all-out war against mortality, but listening to your doctor may be a better choice, say Brunswick’s Kevin Helliker and David Seldin

By Kevin Helliker
28 June 2017

Brunswick strengthens global Healthcare & Life Sciences and Public Affairs practices

Raul Damas and Hannah Stott-Bumsted join as Partners in New York and Washington, D.C.

25 January 2017

Global investors' outlook on health

Key findings on risks and opportunities in the healthcare sector

By Chrissy Randall
20 January 2017

Written on the skin

The sharing of sensitive data is second nature to the young, say Brunswick’s Charis Gresser and Gabrielle Silver

By Charis Gresser
10 January 2017

Live on

Greg Lee, President of the Livestrong Foundation, talks with Brunswick’s Edward Stephens about how the organization endured after the collapse of its founder’s reputation

10 January 2017

Battle for a healthy reputation

Public distrust of the drug industry requires a new approach to communications, say Brunswick’s Charis Gresser and Gabrielle Silver

By Charis Gresser
18 April 2016

World the doctor will see you now

Dr Christopher Murray’s mission to provide genuinely comparative health data has been a catalyst for improving global well-being, reports Brunswick’s David Seldin

30 April 2015

Physician, reveal thyself

Advancements in healthcare are hampered by the industry’s concerns about collected data, says Brunswick’s Richard Meredith

30 April 2015

Don’t be a zombie, be prepared

Nobody knows a crisis better than Dr Ali S. Khan, who leads the US government’s efforts to prepare the public for disease outbreaks and health emergencies, as Brunswick’s Sarah Lubman discovers

10 March 2014

The 11 Conversations: Health

Health is one of the great arenas of human progress, from the eradication of smallpox to the development of prosthetic hands that are nimble enough to type.

31 May 2012

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Dialing Up Digitalized Healthcare

ESG Check-Up: A New Era for Healthcare?

Healthcare is Disproportionately Susceptible to Extortion

A Vaccine Expert on Miracles, Misinformation and Missing Data

Trial & Error

Health Meets Tech at the 2022 STAT Summit

Every Business Is Now a Healthcare Business

A Public Health Leader on COVID's Lessons

China Doubles Down on Healthcare

How COVID-19 Has Changed Healthcare Communications

The Next Pandemic: Applying the Lessons of COVID-19 to AMR

Health in Mind

Healthcare's Data Tsunami

Success that Doesn’t Crush Your Soul

Faster Vaccines

News Alert

The Marginal Revolutionary

A COVID Dividend

Critical Moment

Testing Times

Force of Nature

Streamlining the Virus Fight

Safer, Cleaner, Cheaper

Silicon Valley's Hall of Fame Swimmer

Race Against Time

By Drone or By Dromedary

A Watershed for Mental Health

COVID-19 Tomorrow

Monitoring Vital Signs in the US

Healthy Debate

Waste that Costs an Arm and a Leg

The fight against COVID-19: How the major pharmaceutical companies are responding

India Epicenter

A Physician's Physician

Feed the World

Drawing the Line on Deforestation

Lifeline

Medicine Where Needed

Climate Geopolitics: The Data

The Climate Leaders of the Future

Geopolitical Impact

Second Annual Global Retail Investor Views on Healthcare

Making Waves

Critical Moment

Unbroken: Mark Pollock

The Two Sessions and Implications for Healthcare in 2019

The human cost of data unshared

Endangered species

Healthcare oracle

Worthless value

A higher high-tech calling

Welcome to the jungle

Global Investor Views on Healthcare

Employee-free hospitals

Catch that buzz

Four centuries, one family

Chief Exercise Officer

The Unforgiving Minute

Live forever

Brunswick strengthens global Healthcare & Life Sciences and Public Affairs practices

Global investors' outlook on health

Written on the skin

Live on

Battle for a healthy reputation

World the doctor will see you now

Physician, reveal thyself

Don’t be a zombie, be prepared

The 11 Conversations: Health

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