Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide Secures Five Nominations on the 2016 Cannes Lions Health Shortlist

PARSIPPANY, NJ--(Marketwired - Jun 17, 2016) -  Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide (www.ogilvychww.com), the health behavior change specialists of Ogilvy & Mather (www.ogilvy.com), and a WPP company (NASDAQ: WPPGY) (www.wpp.com), announced the global network has five entries nominated to the 2016 Lions Health shortlist across four categories. The Lions Health awards are part of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide's shortlist entries represent submissions from the network's offices in Australia, Brazil, and the United Kingdom in the following categories: Communications To Non-Healthcare Professionals -- Veterinary; Communications To Healthcare Professionals -- Veterinary; Communications To Non-Healthcare Professionals -- Education & Awareness; and Communications to Healthcare Professionals -- Vaccines & Biotech, Branded Communication.

For more than 60 years, the Cannes Lions Festival has sought to recognize the most innovative and impactful creative works across various industries. Now in its third year, Lions Health highlights life-changing creativity that inspires and pushes creative works forward in the healthcare industry. This year, Lions Health was divided into two factions, Pharma and Health & Wellness, drawing more than 2,500 entries from leading healthcare organizations. Winners will be announced at the Pharma and Health & Wellness Lions awards ceremony to be held on Saturday, at the Lumière Theatre inside the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France. To review all of the nominated entries, please visit: http://www.canneslionsarchive.com/winners/categories/lions-health.

About Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide
Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide is committed to creativity and effectiveness in healthcare communications, everywhere. Our global headquarters are in Parsippany, NJ, with additional hubs in New York, London, Paris and Singapore. We maintain multiple additional offices in markets critical to our clients' global aspirations. Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide provides marketing services including behavioral insights, content strategy and management, digital, interactive and new media services, marketing analytics and research, media planning and buying, medical education, payer marketing and market access, professional advertising and promotion, public affairs and relations, relationship marketing, sales training development, social media and social listening, and wellness and consumer advertising and promotion. The network also offers scientific communications and publications planning services through a wholly owned separate legal entity. The organization houses and maintains individual Ogilvy CommonHealth and Ogilvy Healthworld brand identities within the marketplace.