Havas Health

What Havas Health does

Havas Health Network operates the world's largest dedicated global health communications network, spanning 60+ countries with 66+ physical office locations and a stated workforce of 6,500+ professionals. The company's core offering is B2B professional services — health-focused brand strategy, creative development, media planning, digital marketing, and patient engagement — delivered to pharmaceutical and healthcare brand clients under its 'HUMAN PURPOSE' positioning. The business is anchored at 200 Madison Avenue, New York, and operates as a division of Havas, the French multinational media group.

The company generates revenue through professional services engagements with pharmaceutical and health brands, distributed via direct enterprise field sales supported by regional offices and dedicated new-business contacts. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and follows standard industry patterns of quote-based enterprise engagements. Beyond client services, Havas Health invests in proprietary thought leadership IP including the 'Behind the Mask' and 'Beyond Covid Part II' prosumer research reports and the HAVAS VOICE white paper series, which function as both positioning assets and category-leadership signals.

No AI/ML capabilities, proprietary technology platforms, APIs, or patents are documented in available source material. The business is wholly owned within the Havas group (no public ticker), with no disclosed funding rounds, M&A activity, or cap table information. Governance, regulatory actions, and named executive bios beyond Donna Murphy (Project HOPE 2023 honoree), Harriet Flory (press inquiries), and Meredith Levy (new business) are not detailed in the input data.

Name

Havas Health

Legal name

Havas Health Network

Website

https://havashealth.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Havas Health Network is a B2B professional services firm operating the world's largest dedicated global health communications network, spanning 60+ countries and 66+ locations with 6,500+ employees serving pharmaceutical and healthcare brand clients with brand strategy, creative, media, and patient engagement services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Marketing & Communications Services

NAICS

Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services (5418)

SIC

Services-Advertising Agencies (7311)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare/Pharma Creative Agencies (MPAAAAAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Healthcare & Life Sciences PR (MPAAADAD), Healthcare & Life Sciences PR (BPAFADAJ)

Keywords

• Health communications services
• Healthcare marketing agency
• Pharmaceutical brand communications
• Medical communications network
• Health advertising services

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Health Communications and Marketing Services: B2B professional services revenue model providing health communications, brand building, and marketing services to pharmaceutical and healthcare brands globally.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Havas Health Network is a global health communications and marketing services firm that partners with pharmaceutical and health brands to build brands, engage patients, and deliver healthcare marketing communications. The network provides end-to-end services spanning brand strategy, creative development, media planning, digital marketing, and patient engagement across 60+ countries with 6,500+ professionals.

Product overview

Havas Health Network is a global health communications and marketing network operating across 60+ countries with over 6,500 employees and 66+ locations. The core offering is the Havas Health Network brand itself—a full-service health-focused marketing and communications network that partners with health brands to build businesses focused on health and wellness. The portfolio includes proprietary research publications such as 'Behind the Mask' and 'Beyond Covid Part II' reports, and the HAVAS VOICE white paper series examining marketing and media topics like creators versus influencers. Together, these offerings provide strategic communications, creative services, and consumer insights for health sector clients.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Havas Health Network

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Project HOPEminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 October 2023Project HOPE recognized Donna Murphy, presumably a senior leader at Havas Health, with the 2023 Global Health Leadership Award, indicating a relationship with the global health humanitarian organization.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Publicis Health: Publicis Groupe's health-focused agency network providing creative, media, and digital services to pharma and consumer health clients, with similar global agency-of-record positioning.
• IPG Health: Interpublic Group's dedicated health marketing network offering a comparable suite of pharma advertising, medical communications, and patient engagement services globally.
• TBWA\WorldHealth: TBWA's dedicated health creative agency serving pharmaceutical clients with brand-building and communications work that competes for the same agency-of-record assignments as Havas Health.
• Omnicom Health Group: Health-focused advertising and communications network within Omnicom Group, competing head-to-head with Havas Health for the same pharmaceutical client roster across brand strategy, creative, and medical communications.
• McCann Health: Global health communications network within McCann Worldgroup (IPG) offering pharma advertising, medical communications, and patient engagement services directly competitive with Havas Health's offerings.
• Dentsu Health: Dentsu's dedicated health practice delivering creative, media, and CX services to pharmaceutical and consumer health clients globally, with comparable scale and holding-company backing.

Emerging players

• Syneos Health Communications: Syneos Health's communications and advertising arm combines medical communications with biopharmaceutical services, partially overlapping Havas Health's patient engagement and brand-building offerings with an additional CRO/clinical focus.
• Patients & Purpose: WPP/FCB's health agency focused on patient engagement and DTC pharmaceutical advertising, competing in a meaningful but narrower subset of Havas Health's brand-building scope.

Broad incumbents

• Saatchi & Saatchi Health: Publicis-owned creative agency with a dedicated health practice offering pharma advertising as part of a broader consumer-focused portfolio, comparable in offering but less health-specialized than Havas Health.

Others

• Evoke (Havas): Sibling agency within Havas also serving pharmaceutical and health clients with communications and consulting services, making it both an internal peer and a potential collaborator versus Havas Health.

Market position

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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