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The Futures Group International (Futures Group) PR/Media Team comprised of Futures Group, The Gallup Organization, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, The American Institutes for Research, InterMedia Survey Institute, Center for Development Communication, MCOM Corporation, and Clapp & Mayne represents the breadth and depth of expertise and experiences that would assist missions to achieve their communication goals and objectives. The team brings Public Opinion Polling capabilities, including Study Design, Instrument Development, Sample Design, Data Collection, Data Processing, and Statistical Analysis and Reporting; Public Relations capabilities, including Strategic Planning, Message Development, Research, Partner Development, Advertising, Special Events, Crisis communication, Creative Development, and Media Relations; Advocacy capabilities, including Research, Outreach and Information Dissemination, Policy and Media, Message Design, Strategic Relations, Societal Change, Regulatory/Legal, and Content Research; and Media Relations, including Media Analysis Scan, Media Training, Creative Design Media Monitoring, Strategy Design/Planning , training in media presentations, delivering speeches, and IT/Web-based Design-ICT. 

Collective experience includes Futures Group’s Social Marketing for Change Project, Commercial Market Strategies Project, China Social Marketing Project, and the Indonesia HIV/AIDS Prevention Project; Ogilvy’s Planning Development and Implementation of Health Communication Campaigns, American Responds to Business Responds to AIDS/Labor Responds to AIDS, and CDC’s Prevention & Communication Support Project; AIR’s CDC agency-wide Health Communications Creative projects that uses a range of mass media, the Legacy Foundation project focused on campaign impact evaluation, and the NHLBI project that used the Web as an innovative marketing channel; Gallup’s Candidate Countries Eurobarometer, the International Crime Victimization Survey, the Image Study of Japan focused on a general population survey of privacy attitudes, and the National Health Survey of Hungary; Intermedia’s International Audience Research Program (quantitative and qualitative research studies in over 100 transitional and developing countries), Media/Market Research Consulting for Broadcasting to the Arab World (quantitative and qualitative research on media attitudes and Behavior among elites and general populations), and Qualitative Research for a BBC Series on Sexual & Reproductive Health in Russia, Romania and Poland); the Center for Development Communication’s English, French, and Arabic Language International Executive Media and Television Workshops and Communication as a Reform Tool for the UN; MCOM Corporation’s SOMARC and CMS experience; and Clapp & Mayne’s Evaluation of National Health Sector Reform Program and Philippines TB in Private Sector (TIPS), in addition to the numerous other communications, media, PR, and research and evaluation projects.

The numerous staff members and consultants of our collective organizations constitute a group of highly trained, experienced, and professional workforce who are able to provide strategic and technical capabilities in all areas of media/PR programming. They include: Pamela Pine, Ph.D., MPH, CHES, Communication Director, Futures Group, with over 25 years of experience in the full spectrum of media outreach, PR, and IEC programs in national and international health/communication programming throughout the world (e.g., Albania, Egypt, India, Philippines, Turkey, Yemen, Zaire, Zambia); Yolan LaPorte, Executive Vice President, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, who brings 30 years of crisis communications, media, public education, and government contract management experience to public health education programs for clients including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH); Gael O’Sullivan, MA, Senior Account Manager, AIR, with over 15 years of international health communication experience, designs and directs marketing communication programs and activities for governmental and nonprofit clients; Richard Burkholder, Ph.D., Gallup's Vice President of International Affairs, who directed The 2002 Gallup Survey of the Islamic World, an unprecedented survey of the entire adult populations of Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Turkey, Pakistan, Kuwait, Morocco, Jordan, and Indonesia and recently completed the first-ever Baghdad Poll in Baghda, Iraq; Amanda Noonan, Regional Research Manager, InterMedia Survey Institute, who is a market and media research specialist with nearly two decades of experience in quantitative, qualitative and evaluative research, and particular expertise in conducting research with difficult to access populations throughout East, Southeast and South Asia and the former Soviet bloc countries. 

Our team members are able to provide responsive, imaginative, efficient, and highest-quality support to energize, strengthen, and promote USAID health programs at the global, country, and project levels. We have applied these across the breadth of USAID countries, languages, and development conditions to address critical health, population, and nutrition issues. Specialists are drawn from the Team’s full-time roster of senior, mid-level, and junior staff and are readily available for assignment.