About us

We are a team of more than 100 healthcare specialists with a drive for excellence and a focus on building the agency of the future. We’re passionate about helping people to make better decisions about health and wellbeing. Whether it’s clinicians selecting the best treatment, patients understanding their disease better or empowering consumers to self-treat.

OUR EXPERTISE

OUR HISTORY

For 20 years, we have grown a business we love, built on exceptional people and a focus on our Being Human culture. For seven years we have been part of the Golin Group and IPG network, which enables our agency to leverage everything you’d expect from a large agency, while keeping our own boutique spirit and personality.

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LOCAL EXPERTS,
GLOBAL REACH

We support clients in the UK and in more than 50 markets globally, with the ability to run large-scale global and regional campaigns. We work with colleagues all over the world who know the local market geographies, languages, inhabitants and issues like the back of their hands.

PART OF A BIGGER PICTURE

We are part of the IPG network of agencies, which enables us to connect and collaborate with agencies across the marketing landscape – from digital, to film production, from paid support to talent negotiation – to deliver global, integrated solutions. We harness the collective power of our agencies to create exciting solutions for our clients.

       

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MEET OUR TEAM

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Sarah Gordon

Managing Director

Sarah has more than 20 years of experience leading global and local accounts for the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies and healthcare organisations, working across a spectrum of disciplines spanning public relations, issues management, advertising and medical education. She leads all Virgo Health teams to deliver strategically-driven teams to meet client’s needs.

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Ondine Whittington

President of London

Ondine builds and motivates high-performing teams balanced with an inclusive and supportive working culture. Ondine began her career in the healthcare communications and now leads both Virgo Health and Golin London, where she is instrumental in unlocking both agencies’ collective strength, delivering efficiencies and fresh thinking for clients.

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Cori McKeever

Global Healthcare President

Cori is a collaborative leader dedicated to success, operational efficiency and motivating cross-functional teams across the world. A global healthcare communicator and marketing strategist with a proven record of creating integrated communications campaigns that improve business performance. She has worked across many healthcare organisations, including blue-chip and startup biopharma, diagnostics, payers and professional associations.

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Jelena Lee

Medical Education, EVP

Jelena is the senior strategic and scientific consultant to our clients, with over 18 years’ experience in medical communications and a background in biological sciences. Jelena has worked on global, regional and domestic accounts across multiple indications for pre- and post-launch products, providing strategic counsel and leading tactical implementation on educational programmes for HCPs, patients and internal audiences.

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Natasha Weeks

Consumer Health, EVP

Natasha’s broad consumer health expertise covers everything form OTC medicines to medical devices, food supplements to wellbeing, skin care to women’s health and disease awareness. Natasha oversees a mix of UK, EU and Global clients and is passionate about story-telling, particularly when it comes to helping consumers make better choices about their own health.

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Paul Andrews

Creative Services, EVP

Paul leads The Pharmacy, our creative design and production studio, working across a broad portfolio of healthcare clients and disease areas in PR, advertising and medical education. Paul has over 18 years of design experience in healthcare communications delivering award-winning projects and beautifully crafted, engaging content across print, digital and motion.