India’s only super specialized PR agency in healthcare, Teamwork Communication Solutions, received accolades at the India PR & Corporate Communications Awards 2013 for its work in the field of health and persistent efforts to highlight issues of public health concern.
The agency that has worked incessantly in the field of healthcare PR and conducted numerous campaigns to bring awareness about select health issues bagged the award for ‘Specialist Consultancy of the Year’ in a gala ceremony on Friday night.
The award recognizes the work done by the PR agency and specialist division with a PR consultancy whose business is concentrated on a specific sector, whether an industry sector, a market segment or a PR discipline, in this case it was healthcare PR.
The awardees were selected by a jury comprising 14 eminent Indian communications, PR and media professionals.
“It is a great honour to be recognized for our efforts which we have been putting in to make healthcare communication a specialized segment in India that also caters to pertinent public health issues. At Teamwork, our effort has been to carve a niche for ourselves in this domain and make healthcare communication a tool that would eventually make a difference in the lives of people,” said Kamal Narayan, Director, Teamwork Communication Solutions.
The jury members included former media adviser to the Prime Minister of India, Dr Sanjay Baru, who is currently Director Geo-Economics and Strategy, IISS; Anup Jain Sr. Director Strategic Projects Pizza Hut India; Deepa M Thomas, Ecommerce Evangelist, EBay, and Seema Ahuja, Head Corporate Communication, Biocon, among others.
“It is good to see a PR agency trying to focus in a specialized way on a particular domain, in this case health, and this augurs well for the industry. It would be interesting to see more companies establish themselves as specialized companies and develop expertise in select domains,” said Narayan Madhawan, Sr Journalist, Hindustan Times, a member of the jury.
The India PR & Corporate Communications Awards are one of the most prestigious recognitions in the field of PR that recognize the contributions and achievements of PR agencies in a broad list of categories.
Teamwork Communication Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (TCS) is a leading Public Relations advisory with extensive experience in various sectors, ranging from Healthcare to Education to Corporate and Entertainment.
The agency functions as a one-stop shop for all type of media and communication services and its team of young and dynamic professionals makes it a name to reckon with.
It not only offers consultancy and PR services to leading healthcare organizations and companies, it also takes the issues of public health concern seriously.
The agency has conducted a range of media campaigns to generate awareness around several healthcare subjects that need to be talked about and brought into public discourse.
Be it deadly diseases like cancer, tuberculosis, HIV, malaria, dengue, myeloma or those causing impairment and disabilities like glaucoma, arthritis, Alzheimer’s, spasticity, Teamwork Communication Solutions (TCS) has conducted several awareness campaigns around them.
The consultancy has also conducted campaigns to raise awareness on public health issues like smoking and tobacco hazards and the need to contain them.
Other jury members in the panel were Deepak Jolly, VP Public Affairs & Communications Coca Cola India; LV Krishnan, TAM Media Research; Pranjal Sharma, Editorial Advisor, Columnist, Business World; Senjam Raj Sekhar, Director Communication, Vedanta Group; Sharvani Dang, VP Avantha; Viraj Chauhan, Corpcom director MTS.
The company had been awarded as the best healthcare PR agency in north India for 2012 by Big Brands Academy.
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