The Team
Staff
Franklin Apfel MD MHS is Managing Director and founding partner of World Health Communication Associates Ltd and serves as a visiting faculty in Health Science at the University of the West of England (UWE, Bristol). Previously, Franklin has worked as Head of Communications for the WHO Regional Office for Europe (Copenhagen), Primary Health Care Fellow of the King’s Fund (London), Regional Director Central and Eastern Europe Project HOPE (Bratislava), and a General Practitioner and medical director/CEO of California Health Leadership Inc. (Ukiah). Franklin has five children, three chickens, three cats and enjoys cooking, baking, hiking and gardening.
Contact: franklin@whcaonline.org
Carinne Allinson has worked as WHCA’s Administrative Assistant for the last two years and is now working part-time as Franklin Apfel’s personal Assistant, working on conferences, writing, publications and research work. When she is not working with Franklin, she is a Quaker, a mother, and a storyteller, as well as undertaking freelance proof-reading and editing.
Contact: carinne@whcaonline.org
Associates
Diana G Smith is communications consultant to the Health & Environment Alliance, an international non-governmental organisation aiming to improve health through public policy that promotes a cleaner and safer environment. It achieves its mission by creating opportunities for better representation of ciitizens' and health experts' perspectives on the environment and health-related European policy-making. (Health & Environment Alliance website at www.env-health.org)
Prior to her work at the European level, Diana concentrated on international health development working as a consultant to the World Health Organization, UNICEF, OECD, Health Action International, and Médecins Sans Frontières amongst many others. She graduated from LSE, London then qualified as an IPC magazine journalist. She is a member of the National Union of Journalists, Paris branch.
Steve Turner has worked in health communications for many years, providing products and services for WHCA, WHO (Regional Office for Europe, Western Pacific Region and Headquarters), and The Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. Much of this work has involved the production and distribution of broadcast material, regionally and globally, in addition to broader communications planning and development. He also uses photo-journalism in communication projects, producing series of one-off and sequence-based still images (see Photo Album on this site).
Steve's other work has included communications development, consultancy and production. His clients in the non-profit sector include the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, United Nations, UNESCO, European Union, European Commission, Westminster Foundation for Democracy, the Open Broadcast Network and several NGOs. He has held directorial positions in the commercial world with Phoenix Television, APTN, Worldwide Television News, Molinare, and Capital Radio. He is currently director of Turner Associates.
Contact: steve@turner-associates.org
Tuuli Sauren is an Art Director and designer, with many years of experience in the designing of logos, brochures, magazines, corporate images and campaigns. Amongst other clients she has undertaken design work for WHCA (Logo design, Working with the Media Manual, Medical Ethics handbook, World Health Day 2006 logo and campaign design, ICMS Toolkit) and WHO Regional Office for Europe (Corporate image, European Health Report, Futures Forum Reports, The BRIDGE Magazine, Ten Health Questions about the Ten books and many other smaller projects).
Tuuli’s own company, INSPIRIT International Advertising, is based in Brussels where current local clients include EFTA (European Free Trade Association) and former clients include Boole & Babbage Europe and Metsa Serla.
Tuuli has an advertising agency background, including MacCann Ericson and JW Thompson. Tuuli undertakes all aspects of the work, “from A to Z”, including pictures and other promotional items up to ready printed material. All the work can be delivered in several different language versions when required.
Her other occupations include being a mother to two children, looking after several pets, and Hannoveraner horse breeding and riding.
Contact: ts@inspirit.be
Junior Associates
Andreas Rossbach grew up in Germany where he graduated from school in 1997. A two-year training-on-the-job scheme provided him with experience in business and industrial management at Braun GmbH in Kronberg. Deciding it was time for a fresh start, he moved to Cardiff in Wales where he graduated from Cardiff University in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in biotechnology. While undertaking his PhD in Immunology, Andreas investigated new ways to design and administer vaccines, with particular focus on immunisation with genetic material. He has recently taken up a postdoctoral fellowship position in the Cardiology Department at the University Hospital in Cardiff, where he works to characterise a specific enzyme active at fertilisation.
Through the WHCA he hopes to contribute to improved communication between the public, media and decision makers. His background in research allows him to look at communication problems from a scientist's point of view.