Healthcare

We tell the stories that
transform
health systems

Driving Impact Through Bold Healthcare PR and Advertising

At Fenton, we believe awareness isn’t enough. Real change comes from bold healthcare PR and advertising strategies that expand access to care, fight inequities, and drive systemic progress. We partner with organizations, brands, and governments to turn messages into movements that matter.

Healthcare is about more than medicine. It’s about equity, rights, prevention, and the people who make care possible. Our team of healthcare PR and advertising experts help changemakers cut through the noise, spark action, and shift policy—because being heard is the first step to changing lives.

Our Impact

$72M

in grants to children's hospitals funded by Hyundai Hope on Wheels in the last three years

24+ million

digital ad impressions amplifying the L.A. County Department of Mental Health

10+ years

supporting a global Fortune 50 company driving health equity initiatives

Our Healthcare Clients

Areas of Healthcare Expertise

Health + Climate

We help connect the dots between climate change and its effects on public health—showing how clean air, safe water, and resilient communities are essential to healthier lives. Our campaigns mobilize action to protect both people and the planet.

Health + Gender

From advancing sexual and reproductive health rights to improving maternal care and access to fertility services, we tell stories that elevate gender equity as a public health imperative. Our work ensures every person has the power to make informed choices about their health and future.

Health + LGBTQ+

We amplify LGBTQ+ voices and champion access to care, from HIV prevention to gender-affirming services. By challenging stigma and fighting for equity, we help create systems where everyone can thrive in health and dignity.

Health + Racial Equity

Health equity cannot be achieved without racial equity. We design campaigns that confront systemic racism in healthcare, close gaps in access and outcomes, and uplift solutions led by the communities most impacted.

Health + Migration

We advocate for the health and rights of migrants and refugees, spotlighting stories that humanize their journeys and advocate for policy change. Our work ensures that displaced communities have access to the care and dignity they deserve.

Disease Prevention + Treatment

From cancer to HIV/AIDS to malaria, heart disease, and COVID-19, we partner with leading institutions to increase awareness, funding, and access to lifesaving care. We make complex science relatable to inspire action and support.

Vaccines

We combat misinformation and raise awareness about the power of vaccines—supporting research, funding, and equitable access. Our work helps increase trust, uptake, and global progress in preventing disease.

Health + Youth

Children and teens deserve a healthy start. We advance initiatives that promote nutrition, physical activity, disability inclusion, and safe environments so every young person has the chance to grow, play, and thrive.

Mental Health

We break down stigma and spark open conversations around mental health—because emotional well-being is just as vital as physical health. Our campaigns advocate for access to services, investment, and community support.

Case Studies

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Supporting Legislators on the Frontlines of Defending Abortion

Launching a Multi-Channel Campaign to Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake

Spreading Hope and Helping Kids Fight Cancer

Area Experts

For more than 40 years, our team of experts has worked to advance campaigns that address racial and ethnic health disparities, global health, maternal and reproductive health, mental and behavioral health, food and nutrition security, access to culturally conscious care, advocate for health workers and much more. Our experience gives us deep knowledge of the public health landscape—and unique insight into how to fight back.

Rachel Henderson Eliff Executive Vice President
Rachel Henderson Eliff Executive Vice President

Rachel Henderson Eliff is an Executive Vice President, CSG at Fenton. Rachel is an award-winning senior communications professional with close to 15 years of media relations, social impact storytelling and cause marketing experience. Her issues expertise ranges widely from global development, public health, refugees and migration, to consumer brands, public affairs, sustainability and healthcare.

She offers communications strategies for leading brands and global organizations to build a better world. She is a sought-after thought leader and speaker on virtual reality storytelling, social impact communications, CSR and cause marketing strategies and brings this expertise to her clients.

Corporate Social Good
Adam Robles Senior Vice President
Adam Robles Senior Vice President

Adam Robles is a Senior Vice President at Fenton, where he utilizes his nearly 15 years of experience across public relations, corporate social responsibility, and diversity & inclusion to develop and implement strategies designed to help clients have a positive social impact.

Adam joins Fenton from Hyundai Motor America, where he helped lead the company’s corporate social responsibility, diversity & inclusion, and corporate culture efforts. Prior to joining Hyundai, Adam spent nearly 10 years at Finn Partners, where his work was focused on developing integrated communications campaigns that were culturally competent and creatively tailored to reach diverse audiences, influence purchase consideration, create public awareness and encourage positive behavior change.

Corporate Social Good
Shakirah Hill Taylor Chief Digital Officer
Shakirah Hill Taylor Chief Digital Officer

Shakirah Hill Taylor is Chief Digital Officer. Serving as senior strategic counsel to internal stakeholders as well as clients, she provides leadership and strategy for the firm’s digital practice on a wide range of interactive strategies and execution to drive innovative and award-winning digital work. She brings extensive expertise in digital strategy, online advocacy building, social impact and client service to help organizations reach intended audiences to create positive, impactful and sustainable change.

She previously served as Vice President of Metropolitan Group, where she led their global digital and social marketing practice, providing strategic consultation for organizations such as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, US Forest Service, World Resources Institute and the Ford Foundation. Before joining the Metropolitan group, she served in prior roles at Communities in Schools as their Director of Digital Strategy as well as at Blue State Digital as Account Director, where she led client engagements for the NAACP, the United States Olympic Committee and Nestlé.

Digital
Erik Olvera Chief Of Issue Advocacy
Erik Olvera Chief Of Issue Advocacy

Erik Olvera is an accomplished communications strategist with more than 20 years of experience working with several of the nation’s leading environmental, LGBTQ, racial justice and voting rights organizations.

He currently serves as Fenton’s Chief of Issue Advocacy, providing organizations focused on advocacy, politics and social justice with communications strategy and support to achieve their goals through campaigns that increase awareness, shape public discourse and build loyalty with new audiences.

Prior to joining Fenton, he served as the Chief Communications Officer at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), where he oversaw all aspects of the racial justice organization’s legal and public policy communications. While there, he provided strategic guidance as the organization looked toward its future and led several projects to deepen the legacy organization’s work with the communities that it serves.

Before SPLC, he was the head of communications for environmentalist Tom Steyer’s GOTV and political organizations, where he helped develop the Need to Impeach movement. He previously served as the Senior Director of Communications for Earthjustice, where he was responsible for shaping discourse for the organization’s legal and public policy work.

The Regis University alumnus also spent several years leading communications for the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), where he worked on a wide range of LGBTQ legislation and legal cases. Some of his work at NCLR includes designing the Born Perfect public education campaign to end conversion therapy on minors nationwide and developing the communications plan that helped lead to the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court marriage equality victory.

Issue Advocacy
Paul Hernandez Chief Strategy Officer
Paul Hernandez Chief Strategy Officer

Paul is best known as a communications and public affairs strategist. He has over 20 years of experience working to engage and influence policymakers and other decision-makers on key issues ranging from health care to racial equity to homelessness to early childhood education.

From strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, campaign management to message development, Paul has acted as a consigliere to several prominent funders throughout the country.

He has been a senior consultant to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in its efforts to improve the health, living conditions and economic security for children and families living in New Mexico, and to improving public schools in Michigan. He acted as a lead communications strategist for a collaborative of the nation’s most prominent foundations, Executives’ Alliance to Expand Opportunities for Boys and Men of Color, including coordination with President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Initiative. He partnered with the Silicon Valley Community Foundation to plan a campaign to engage California’s gubernatorial candidates to support early childhood development. And was a longtime senior policy advisor to the Blue Shield of California Foundation in its efforts to support the successful implementation of the Affordable Care Act in California.

He has also served as a trusted advisor to public and nonprofit sector organizations such as the Advancement Project, Los Angeles County Chief Executive Office, and Oakland Unified School District.

Prior to joining Fenton, Paul spent more than eight years with The California Endowment, the state’s largest private health foundation. He led efforts to build alliances and generate support for the foundation’s health priorities and was a key strategist in crafting and implementing a multi-million-dollar campaign to advance statewide health reform in 2007.

He is also a veteran of local government and politics, having served as a legislative deputy to Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina, where he acted as the Supervisor’s chief advisor on law enforcement, public safety and transportation issues.

Outside of the office, Paul serves on the Boards of the Liberty Hill Foundation and Community Health Councils and is a proud alumnus of U.C. Berkeley and Coro Southern California. And he can also point you to the best restaurants and cocktail bars in Los Angeles.

Government

Philanthropy
Jennifer Hahn Chief Client Officer
Jennifer Hahn Chief Client Officer

Jennifer Hahn is the Chief Client Officer at Fenton. A field leader with more than 20 years of nonprofit experience, she designs and directs campaigns for critical social issues such as education, social and economic justice, gender equity and children, youth and families. With a strategic mind and an activist’s heart, she harnesses issue framing, messaging, media advocacy and public engagement to advance her client’s progressive goals. From strategic planning to CEO speechwriting, campaign management to opinion research, Jennifer is consigliere to nonprofits and foundations.

Client Service Operations

Corporate Social Good
Joe Wagner Chief Of Political Advocacy
Joe Wagner Chief Of Political Advocacy

As the Chief of Political Advocacy at Fenton, Joe brings more than 25 years of experience designing and managing campaigns for foundations, nonprofits and advocacy organizations. Joe brings tremendous expertise in strategic positioning, advertising, media relations, training and stakeholder outreach.

Prior to joining Fenton, Joe was a Vice President, Group Manager at Ketchum Public Relations. Joe was also a Vice President at GMMB for seven years, where he orchestrated many high-profile public affairs campaigns. Joe is a native of Los Angeles and worked on Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign in California before starting his career in Washington in the press office at the Democratic National Committee.

Political Advocacy
Tom Blake Executive Vice President, Advertising & Digital
Tom Blake Executive Vice President, Advertising & Digital

Tom has more than a decade of experience in managing omnichannel behavior change campaigns and currently serves as the leader of Fenton’s Paid Media practice group.

Before joining Fenton, he served as Deputy Digital Director for the Reshma Saujani campaign for NYC Public Advocate in 2013. He then joined the team at Global Citizen, where he managed more than $10,000,000 in digital advertising and email outreach to grow one of the largest advocacy programs in the global development sector. Later, he also served as Digital Director at Families for Excellent Schools, where he helped design pressure campaigns to push the New York State legislature to enact key progressive education reform bills. In that role, he also managed more than $12,000,000 in media buys for the 2016 “Yes on 2” Ballot Measure campaign in Massachusetts.

Since joining Fenton, Tom has been responsible for growing our paid media practice from the ground-up. He has also played a pivotal role in many of our highest-profile election outreach efforts. Some of his key projects include: helping turn the Senate blue by leading the media buying strategy with the New Georgia Project during the 2020 Senate run-off election, leading a coordinated 2020 census advertising campaign between LA County Government and more than 100 community-based organizations, helping the NY Campaign Finance Board reach millions of voters with important election information, and acting as media lead for the LA County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk in their ongoing efforts to inform voters and build trust in the election system as a whole.

More broadly, Tom also has a background in HIV advocacy and the queer rights movement. He is a co-chair of Prism, Fenton’s LGBTQ employee resource group. He is an alum of Act Up New York and a co-founder of the grassroots advocacy group PrEP4All, co-leading the successful communications campaign to #BreakthePatent on Truvada, the life-saving HIV prevention. He is also a member of the Victory Fund’s Campaign Board.

Advertising

Digital
Susannah Rosenblatt Vice President
Susannah Rosenblatt Vice President

Susannah Rosenblatt is a Vice President, CSG at Fenton, where she uses her award-winning communications leadership experience spanning cultures and continents to craft winning strategies to improve global health. A versatile storyteller, she directed strategy and branding for the United Nations Foundation’s malaria prevention campaign; managed its digital presence at the World Health Assembly; and cultivated thought leadership and partnerships for the global health team.

Driven by causes that count, she has overseen a multimillion-dollar cause marketing effort to prevent suicide and supported communications for Heifer International, Save the Children, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, among others. She was also a journalist with the Los Angeles Times and in Taiwan. Susannah has an M.P.S. in Public Relations from Georgetown University, where she was a faculty advisor, and a B.A. in English, summa cum laude, from Wake Forest University.

Corporate Social Good
Kimaya Dixit Vice President, CSG
Kimaya Dixit Vice President, CSG

Kimaya is an expert in strategy and message development for digital communications, integrated marketing and advocacy campaigns. Kimaya uses equal parts science, creativity and rigor to push the branding and digital world forward to take big ideas from vision to implementation. She seizes opportunities to drive narratives, build brand identities, draw insights from data and tell stories – that inspire action, change behavior and advance business goals for the social impact sector.

She has managed campaigns for global and national nonprofits, government agencies, trade associations and businesses. Prior to joining the Fenton team, Kimaya led global rebranding, digital strategy, fundraising and external engagement efforts for major health and gender equity organizations. Kimaya has also worked with Ketchum Public Relations, where she served federal agencies, such as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Environmental Protection Agency, and major brands such as the National Football League, Pfizer, FedEx and Hertz. Kimaya has supported the Rockefeller Foundation to develop a digital storytelling platform, Storytelling for Good, and has also led storytelling trainings in India, Thailand, Kenya and the U.S. for the Foundation’s grantees and program staff.

Kimaya graduated from the University of Pune in India with a bachelor’s degree in economics.

Corporate Social Good
Aileen Andres Vice President
Aileen Andres Vice President

Aileen Andres is a Vice President of Digital at Fenton, where she uses her background in international development, communications and advocacy to apply a creative and nuanced lens to highly sensitive issues. Aileen strives to develop stories, messages and narratives that are not only engaging and exciting, but that aim at the heart and at the soul.

Most recently, Aileen led digital campaigns abroad and at home, advocating public health protections for women and children around the world. She has also led social justice work, campaigning for human rights in the DRC and criminal justice reform in the U.S. Before agency life found her, Aileen worked as an international development professional implementing governance and justice reform projects throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

Digital
Katherine Brandon Vice President
Katherine Brandon Vice President

Katherine Brandon is a Vice President at Fenton. For more than a decade, she has worked in mission-driven communications, with a particular focus on gender, international development and global health. She has extensive experience leading communications strategies, managing complex partnerships, directing high-level events, media relations and storytelling.

Most recently, she led communications and advocacy for Together for Girls, a global partnership bringing together the UN, national governments and the private-sector to end violence against children. Previously, she spent nearly six years leading communications for the girls and women’s portfolio at the United Nations Foundation, working on sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender equality, and empowering adolescent girls. Prior to that, she worked in the press office for a U.S. Senate committee, in the White House, and on political campaigns. A storyteller at heart, she graduated with highest distinction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism.

Corporate Social Good
Jordan Treible Vice President
Jordan Treible Vice President

Jordan Treible is a Vice President at Fenton, where she brings her expertise in communications, issue-based advocacy and digital media to a variety of organizations dedicated to equity and social good. With a passion to advance global health and development, Jordan is skilled in crafting smart digital strategy, delivering nuanced and compelling organizational messages, distilling data-heavy research and finding fresh ways to elevate her client’s Issues on international stages.

Before joining Fenton, Jordan led communications and advocacy efforts for clients in the global health space at GMMB. She began her career in communications at the Brookings Institution, supporting research-based metropolitan policy change.

Jordan graduated cum laude from Davidson College with a degree in History and a minor in French and Francophone Studies.

Corporate Social Good
Danielle Schlanger Senior Vice President
Danielle Schlanger Senior Vice President

Danielle Schlanger is a Senior Vice President at Fenton, specializing in political and executive communications and providing strategic counsel to CEOs, clients and campaigns. She works across Fenton’s political practice to help organizations on the left make headlines, change the discourse both inside the Beltway and out, and advance policies to make our country fairer.

Before joining Fenton, Danielle was the New York State deputy communications director on the Mike Bloomberg 2020 campaign. She was previously both a speechwriter and communications strategist at the New York City Economic Development Corporation, where she played a key role in advancing high-profile initiatives including women.nyc and the Amazon HQ2 bid. She began her career as a journalist and has bylines in a number of leading publications.

Danielle received her bachelor’s degree in urban and regional studies from Cornell University and a master’s in public administration from Columbia University.

Issue Advocacy
Mercy Albaran Vice President
Mercy Albaran Vice President

Mercy Albaran is a Vice President at Fenton and a proud Oakland, CA native. She brings a strong background in nonprofit communications and uses her messaging, training and media relations skills to share the stories behind struggles for social justice. Some of her recent clients include the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, the GSA Network and the James Irvine Foundation.

The daughter of an immigrant caregiver, Mercy was inspired to take on the lead communications role at the California branch of the National Domestic Workers Alliance prior to Fenton. Outside of the office, Mercy is a member of GABRIELA, an international, grassroots alliance fighting for the liberation of Filipina womxn and overseas workers. In her spare time, she likes to learn languages, sing with her partner and beatbox.

Issue Advocacy
Serena Jiwani Vice President
Serena Jiwani Vice President

Serena Jiwani is a Vice President, specializing in media relations, issue-based advocacy and strategic communications.

Serena joined Fenton after leading media relations for the United Nations Foundation, where she provided press guidance to teams across the foundation, arranged interviews for leadership and organized global press trips for journalists to see the UN’s work in action. Serena cares deeply about social justice causes and brings a diverse perspective to her clients.

Political Advocacy