PRCA Health x PRCA Climate Communication

Event Overview

Alongside diversity and inclusion, sustainability was one of the highest priorities for business leaders across 2022 and will remain so for years to come. In fact, according to Deloitte’s 2023 CxO Sustainability Report, while CxOs faced a number of challenges over the last year—including economic uncertainty, geopolitical conflict, supply chain disruptions, and talent shortages—concern over climate change continues to be a top priority for their organisations. Many CxOs rated climate change as a “top three issue,” ahead of seven others, including innovation, competition for talent, and supply chain challenges.

Advising on and communicating sustainability plans, programmes and reporting progress is nuanced, multidimensional and should involve key stakeholders. Doing so in the critical space of population health adds further complications as well as opportunities. 

Join the PRCA Health Group X Climate Communication Group at our first collaboration for a conversation on impactful, engaging and responsible communications to drive positive action on health and climate.

Anitra Sprauten, Director, Edelman, will facilitate an expert discussion with Dr Elaine Mulcahy, Director at the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change, and Laura Mann, Head of Sustainability Corporate Affairs & Global Partnerships at AstraZeneca.

You can expect insights around:

• Why environmental sustainability is so important to healthcare.
• The biggest challenges and opportunities on the health and climate agenda.
• The role of communications in driving understanding and action from the public, policymakers, investors, employees and other stakeholders. 
• Walking the walk – tips for developing climate and health communications with impact.
• Communicating responsibly on health and climate.
• Top tips for engaging, educating and empowering leaders to be sustainability champions.

Biography

Elaine Mulcahy - Director at UK Health Alliance on Climate Change

Elaine Mulcahy is the director of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change, which is an alliance of 37 UK-based health organisations with a shared vision for a sustainable, just, healthy world.

Elaine has a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Strathclyde and completed post-doctoral research in neurophysiology at the University of Sydney and Australian National University. She has extensive experience working in health and science communications and strategic leadership roles including editor of the nanotechnology magazine NANO and Head of Corporate Communications and Marketing at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. She has written several articles on the intersection between health and climate.

In her role at the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change, she brings together health professionals to advocate for just responses to the climate and ecological crisis, promote the health benefits that flow from those responses, and empowers members and health professionals to make changes in their professional and personal lives to respond to the crisis.

Laura Mann - Head of Sustainability Corporate Affairs & Global Partnerships at AstraZeneca

Laura Mann leads AstraZeneca’s Sustainability Corporate Affairs & Global Partnerships team, which includes communications, campaigns, media, public affairs and multilateral relations. Laura is also the Secretariat lead for the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI) Health Systems Task Force, a public-private collaboration championed by AstraZeneca’s CEO Pascal Soriot.

Prior to joining AstraZeneca, Laura was Head of Campaigns at No. 10 and Cabinet Office. She held a number of roles spanning international government affairs and internal communications at global mining firm Rio Tinto, where she spent a year in Mongolia supporting a multi-billion dollar joint venture. Laura began her career in consultancy at Kekst CNC and holds an MA in Modern & Medieval Languages (German & French).