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Havas Lynx

Global Healthcare Communications Group

Welcome to Havas Lynx

We are Havas Lynx, a leading healthcare communications agency. We are part of the world’s largest healthcare communications network, with a full-service global offering and almost 600 multi-disciplinary specialists in Manchester, London, and New York.

For 36 years, our work has combined strategic insight and profound scientific understanding with creativity and digital innovation.​

​And it’s this combination of disciplines that continues to create healthcare campaigns that deliver effectiveness and make an impact that matters for pharmaceutical and biotech brands, patients, caregivers, healthcare professionals, our people, and our world.

Healing The Healers
Healing The Healers

If we don't heal the healers, who will heal us?

We are witnessing the fastest deterioration of healthcare professional (HCP) wellbeing in human history.
The impact of this crisis is both visible – through the increasing exodus of HCPs from healthcare worldwide – and invisible through hidden, darker emotions of burnout, depression, distress, and even suicide. The impact of HCPs, patients, and the healthcare system has never been more critical.
It’s time to bring together all healthcare stakeholders to reverse this trend. Because if we don’t heal the healers, who is going to heal us?
www.healing-the-healers.co.uk

Parkylife
Havas Lynx

Parkylife

Parkinson’s is a scary disease to be diagnosed with. It’s chronic, progressive, and can affect anyone of any age. Google Parkinson’s and you’re faced with images of shaky old men. No wonder depression and anxiety are twice as common in newly diagnosed patients. Parkylife was created to change perceptions and smash the stigmas of Parkinson’s. It’s a platform for all the positive thinking around Parkinson’s, enabling the newly diagnosed to benefit from the optimism of others living with the condition. In contrast to the stereotypical imagery of old men in cardigans, Parkylife looks on the bright side of the disease. Parkylife is advice from the Parkinson’s community, for the Parkinson’s community. It gathers all the positive thinking that’s out there, all the funny stories and inspiring quotes, and bringing them to life through bespoke illustrations.

Give Your Fanny Five
The Lady Garden Foundation

Give Your Fanny Five

There’s plenty of conversations around checking our boobs, balls, and bums for cancer, but the chat around fannies and gynaecological health is yet to be normalized. ‘Give Your Fanny Five’, brazenly asks young people to do just one thing: spend five minutes getting to know their bits. ‘Give Your Fanny Five’, an integrated campaign that’s supported by gynae health charity, The Lady Garden Foundation, aimed to break the cultural taboo around vaginal self-exams and raise awareness about why it saves lives and how to perform it.

Chugai/Roche

Ouchie

Arthritis is widely seen as an old person’s disease. So much so, that in the UK no patient support materials existed for children with Systematic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (sJIA). When a child’s sJIA does flare up, there aren’t any visible signs and they often struggle to communicate the pain they are in. We designed the first patient support pack in the UK aimed specifically at children with sJIA, and developed a two-tone wristband that helped them discreetly let a grown-up know just how they’re feeling and when they need help.

Health for all

What if no one was left behind?

Behind every statistic or piece of data related to healthcare inequality is an individual story of someone working to make healthcare a more equitable place. Health For All is a long-term initiative exploring the separation of humanity and healthcare that happens when equity, diversity, inclusivity (ED&I) are missing. Health For All is made up of stories which heroes individuals working towards positive change in healthcare – from researchers addressing challenges in women’s health, to the dementia café providing LGBTQ+ people with support. Each story has been visualised by a different creator, all with different perspectives and lived experiences, driving inclusivity throughout every stage of the initiative. Learn more at http://nooneleftbehind.co.uk

Hidden Lifesavers
Ethypharm

Hidden Lifesavers

How do you connect with a community that’s been marginalised by society, left sceptical of outsiders, and near impossible to reach? ‘The Hidden Lifesavers’ is a campaign that encourages people who use drugs to do something remarkable – save a life. Using portraits and quotes from people who use drugs, the campaign urges the community to carry naloxone – a life-saving opioid overdose reversal drug. People who use drugs are often seen as a hard-to-reach community, so we brought our posters to the cities most impacted – the best place to make a difference. We saw a significant increase in people seeking more information and demand for naloxone. But further than that, we helped to get a life-saving drug into the hands of people who needed it most.

Andi Goes
Havas Lynx

Andi Goes

Dyslexia affects up to 870,000 children in the UK, yet only 150,000 are actually diagnosed. This leaves hundreds of thousands of children without the support they need at a key time. Screeners are available but they’re stressful for the child and cause a stigma about the condition in the process. We needed to find a way to help parents spot signs of dyslexia without their child even being aware of it and let them enjoy the experience. Working with Dyslexia Teachers, we took complex screeners and turned them into a children’s book. The story was written to include key factors in early signs of dyslexia such as Fry’s First 100 words, corrective partial decoding, and processing difficulties. For the parent, it was a useful tool and for the child, it was a wonderful fable. Learn more here: https://www.andigoes.com/.

Haemophilia doesn't have to get in the way of your love life
Roche

Haemophilia doesn't have to get in the way of your love life

Social listening gathered as part of our wider campaign, #Memeophilia, highlighted that our target audience was missing out on vital aspects of life: love and physical relationships. They worry their haemophilia is hard to understand, makes them unattractive, and might affect their sexual performance. And like many young men, they’re embarrassed to talk about how they really feel. So we brought to life a well-known pair of emojis typically used by our target audience when chatting about sex – the peach and the aubergine. We turned what’s difficult to talk about into engaging and relevant social content using humour.

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