Anna Gallais

A passionate leader with over 20 years’ experience in the healthcare and FMCG sectors, Anna brings broad experience in the many areas of earned communications, at international, regional and national level.

 

Anna joined Weber Shandwick in 2016 and currently leads The Weber Shandwick Collective’s newly established EMEA Consumer Health and Wellness practice. She provides strategic counsel to business leaders across pharma and consumer health organizations on a range of communications opportunities, from disease awareness, health care professional or patient engagement and advocacy, through to brand building.

 

Anna started her career as PR Manager, France for P&G where she was responsible for award-winning PR initiatives for a number of brands. This was followed by a move to the P&G headquarters in Geneva where she focused on regional communications strategy.

 

In 2012, she joined Novartis and was subsequently nominated Global Head of Communication for the Pain Relief Franchise for Consumer Health. Under her leadership, Novartis established a Profense programme to communicate the objective benefit/risk profile of diclofenac (NSAID), with the support of an external global advisory board.

 

Over the course of her career, Anna has been selected to serve on several high-profile creative juries, including the Cannes Lions for Health & Wellness (2022).