causes | Global Health
At GMMB, we use communications to inspire action and save lives, both at home and in the broader global community. In our interconnected world, causing the effect means looking beyond our borders and recognizing the opportunities to change the future of individuals and communities. In more than 30 countries spanning five continents, GMMB has built effective coalitions, executed creative grassroots outreach campaigns and worked to improve the health of children and families. Whether ensuring the distribution of millions of mosquito nets to prevent malaria, encouraging countries to adopt life-saving vaccines or advocating for greater U.S. leadership to reduce maternal mortality, we help our clients bring attention to critical global health issues at the local, national and international levels.
On behalf of the United Nations Foundation, GMMB developed and implemented the Nothing But Nets campaign, a global, grassroots effort to combat malaria in Africa through the free distribution of long-lasting, insecticide-treated bed nets. Through this effort, GMMB helped orchestrate a national tour of major U.S. cities to activate grassroots support and bring together diverse partner constituencies.
When the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Worldwide Corporate Contributions sought to expand its efforts in digital and social media to support and highlight the work of its grantees in global health, they turned to us. GMMB developed and executed a plan to increase the share of voice for J&J and its partners among key global health stakeholders. Not only did J&J more than double its social media following in this area, the work has helped boost the efforts to fight mother-to-child transmission of HIV, pediatric intestinal worms, obstetric fistula and unsafe childbirth.
GMMB knows how and when to tailor an approach to ensure our efforts lead to global successes, like achieving the first-ever pneumococcal vaccination of a child in the developing world with the GAVI Alliance in Rwanda. We work with organizations like the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC), the Sabin Vaccine Institute and the Pneumococcal Awareness Council of Experts (PACE) to raise awareness of opportunities to prevent disease and ensure that life-saving vaccines are available throughout the developing world. On behalf of PATH, we developed DefeatDD.org to bring attention to diarrheal disease, an issue few people discuss even though it is the second leading killer of children under age five around the world.
GMMB brings partners and organizations together to not only support effective global health solutions, but to help put these solutions into action. We provided strategic counsel, developed and executed events for the Johns Hopkins University and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch The Lancet Series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition in Africa, Asia and Latin America. GMMB is also a partner in the Alive & Thrive initiative, a Gates Foundation effort dedicated to improving nutrition for infants and young children in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Vietnam. We work with partners on the ground in each country to implement an advocacy strategy designed to meet each country’s unique needs and foster long-term, sustainable health improvements through effective policies and programs.
Our work on improving maternal and child help has included helping Ipas promote a short film about unsafe abortion in Ethiopia and worked with Pathfinder International to create a new approach to adolescent reproductive health. With the Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS), we provided messaging support, and helped to develop and release a global report focused on innovative approaches to saving lives.
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