A Havas Health
& You Agency

We are a diverse team of healthcare communications experts, working in the UK and US. Whatever your purpose, we create tailor-made solutions for you.

Havas SO is part of the largest healthcare network in the world: Havas Health & You.

This means we can tap into a wealth of additional resources and talent: 4,000+ people from more than 70 countries worldwide. We regularly partner with our sister agencies to bring in additional expertise from media buying, to CRM and more.

As a subsidiary of Vivendi, we have unparalleled access to world-leading entertainment solutions to take our health campaigns to new levels. This includes global names such as StudioCanal, Universal Music Group, Gameloft and more.

Creative campaigns and advertising

Patient engagement

Public relations and medical communications

Congresses
and events

Traditional media relations and social media

Corporate communications and reputation management

Public health and disease awareness

Data milestones and product launches

Patient co-created solutions

Scientific education

Brand positioning and brand building

Omnichannel content and tailored HCP communications

Medical affairs

And more…

Scott A. Clark
Executive Chair and Founder

has been a prominent player in the world of brand reputation and specialist communications for over 30 years. His extensive experience allows him to discover and amplify authentic stories within corporate brands, bringing strategic vision to life and conveying commercial messages that compel stakeholders.

Stephanie Bunten
CEO and Founder

has worked in healthcare communications for more than 20 years. Her expertise lives in delivering striking, strategic and integrated comms programmes from a local to global level.

Lottie Walter
Deputy Managing Director

is committed to ensuring that Havas SO adds genuine value through creative communication and engagement strategies. This drive feeds into many areas of agency life, including her championing the Havas SO approach to tackling briefs with an interdisciplinary, cross-specialism approach.

Moira Gitsham
Director and Founder

brings 35 years of health communications and PR experience, alongside a wealth of patient engagement knowledge. Moira’s pharmacist, health economics and meeting facilitator background has cemented her position as an international pharma communication expert.

Rebecca Faber
Director, Head of Strategy and Purpose

cut her teeth in client service and strategy for many years. She is driven by a strong desire to improve the health of both people and planet, and proudly heads up the SO Purpose offering.

Karine Jegard
Director, Head of Medical and Scientific Communication

is never happier than when she has a meaty challenge to think about and solve. She believes that to drive change in healthcare, the voices of patients, caregivers and HCPs need to be heard.

Jo Hewitt
Director, Head of Integrated Communications and Agency Culture

brings more than 20 years of healthcare communications experience at the global, EMEA and UK level. She is responsible for several of the agency's global clients in transforming their brands and businesses through integrated communications strategies. Jo is particularly interested in preventive medicine, having worked on vaccines for the majority of her career.

Hugh Mackinnon
Director, Head of Innovation and Creative Client Services

has worked with a range of global healthcare clients, operating in a strategic and digital capacity. More recently, as an innovation consultant, he developed strategies for driving innovation and facilitating early-stage technology partnerships in healthcare and other sectors.

Joanna Quade
Director

has extensive Global communications and patient engagement experience across multiple disease areas. Her strength lies in bringing her creative flair to create memorable, strategic, and integrated programs that make people think differently about a challenge or situation.

Life at Havas SO

Every day is different at Havas SO. As a purpose-built agency, we blend teams that work across our different offerings so that clients benefit from our wide range of talent.

We bring advertising minds into PR briefs and patient engagement experts into healthcare campaigns. We believe this helps us grow and learn as individuals.

It means we produce campaigns that address the ever-changing needs of our health clients and their customers.

The Havas family

We prioritise personal development, wellbeing, and our company culture.

As well as personalised development plans, we have recently re-launched our training programme, which is in addition to the Havas University that is available on-demand to all employees.

Working at Havas Village London, we have unparalleled access to so much more: from wellbeing sessions including sport, yoga and meditation, to live music in partnership with Universal, guest speakers and weekly social events.

At Havas SO, we have our own employee engagement team who organise regular social events. That’s in addition to our weekly Thursday Havas (free) bar nights!

what our team say

I love the variety of work -
therapy areas, creativity
and types of
challenges

“We’re an eclectic collective. We have a diverse mix of people from all different skillsets.”

“We problem solve to the client brief – a flexible approach from the diversity of experience we have at all levels.”

Work with us

Could Havas SO be fit for your purpose? We’re always on the lookout for new people.

If you’d like to hear about our latest opportunities, please get in touch. You can also find us on LinkedIn.

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