NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 17, 2026--
Allison Worldwide, a Stagwell (STGW) agency, today announced the launch of Allison Worldwide Health Group, an integrated health communications offering designed to help leaders and brands navigate, shape and embrace the future of health.
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The Group’s launch comes as health organizations face growing pressure to communicate with clarity amid scientific breakthroughs, evolving patient expectations, shifting policy environments, new models of care and an increasingly complex information ecosystem.
“We are at an inflection point in health marketing and communications as culture shapes health and health shapes culture and the opportunity to transform communications for the future is boundless,” said Wendy Lund, Global CEO, Allison Worldwide and Vice Chair of Health, Stagwell. “Allison Worldwide Health Group has been specifically designed to embrace where healthcare is going with a dream team of passionate, hands-on advisors that help organizations see health differently. At the end of the day, our integrated mindset moves health conversations forward to improve lives. Fueled by AI-driven predictive analytics, earned and influencer authenticity, our Group helps clients anticipate opportunities, build influence, protect reputation and connect seamlessly with audiences—so they can see around corners and be ahead of what’s next.”
Built for the future of health
While the Group can lead all product and corporate communications, unlike current agency practices, the Allison Worldwide Health Group is uniquely structured to see health differently by focusing on the needs of clients and strategically engaging with their key audiences:
“Our industry is evolving quickly and Allison Worldwide Health Group is ready to embrace the future of health,” said Jamie Dowd, Global President, Allison Worldwide Health Group. “As we move beyond traditional campaigns and siloed ways of working, clients need partners who can interpret complex data, anticipate change, build stakeholder trust and move people to meaningful action all over the world. Our team brings together the experience, predictive intelligence, creativity and agility to do exactly that—while operating as a true extension of each client’s team.”
Helping clients see around corners to lead the next era of health
Allison Worldwide Health Group is fueled by a sophisticated data, AI and measurement offer that blends cutting-edge analytics with strategic thinking to turn data into clarity and optimization.
Providing a full spectrum of integrated capabilities
Further differentiating Allison Worldwide Health Group is Sidekick, Allison’s award-winning creative collective that specializes in experiential, digital storytelling and branded content. Sidekick x Allison brings health stories to life beyond traditional communications, creating immersive experiences and culturally relevant content across social, video, live events, gamification and emerging technologies that help brands connect with audiences in even more meaningful ways.
Allison Worldwide Health Group is part of Allison Worldwide’s global network and will draw on the agency’s integrated communications capabilities, international scale and commitment to earned-first thinking. The Group is set up to serve biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, health organizations, government entities, healthcare systems, patient advocacy organizations and health technology innovators.
Learn more about the Allison Worldwide Health Group here.
About Allison Worldwide
Allison Worldwide is an earned-first, data-led, and future-focused communications agency helping clients see around corners and be ahead of what's next. Not too big and not too small, Allison provides end-to-end global communications, PR, influencer, analytics and marketing support to clients from the Fortune 500 to start-ups. Allison is owned by Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW), one of the fastest growing and most influential marketing and communications networks in the world. Learn more at www.allisonworldwide.com.
About Stagwell
Stagwell is the global challenger network transforming marketing through AI. We deliver scaled creative performance for the world's most ambitious brands, connecting culture-moving creativity with leading-edge technology to harmonize the art and science of marketing. Led by entrepreneurs, our specialists in 40+ countries are unified under a single purpose: to drive effectiveness and improve business results for our clients. Join us at www.stagwellglobal.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are jumping Thursday and clawing back most of their losses for the week.
Falling oil prices and easing pressure from the bond market are helping Wall Street reverse many of its moves from the prior day, when the Federal Reserve hiked its main interest rate for the first time in years and suggested more may be ahead as it tries to get the nation’s high inflation under control.
The S&P 500 jumped 1% and was on track for just its second rise in the last nine days. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 306 points, or 0.6%, as of 9:35 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1.3% higher.
Stocks got a boost after the price for a barrel of Brent crude oil slid 3% to $102.70. That’s down sharply from the nearly $110 it reached earlier in the week on worries that the war with Iran will keep oil bottled up in the Middle East instead of going to customers worldwide.
Brent is of course still much more expensive than the $72 per barrel that it cost earlier this summer, but Thursday’s slide helped pull yields lower in the bond market and removed some pressure on stocks. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 4.95% from 5.01% late Wednesday.
Higher yields make it more expensive for everyone to borrow money, from the U.S. government to people looking to buy houses to businesses wanting to build data centers. That in turn slows the economy.
The Fed on Wednesday raised the short-term interest rate that it controls, the federal funds rate, by a quarter of a percentage point for its first hike in more than three years. Officials also indicated at least one more increase may be coming this year and that the Fed may then keep the federal funds rate high through next year.
The signals sent Wall Street on a roller coaster. Stocks initially held onto their earlier gains Wednesday but then slid sharply before recovering a chunk of the losses before trading ended for the day.
On the upside for markets, the shift to higher interest rates built confidence that the Fed is committed to getting inflation back to its target of 2%. Questions had begun to bubble in the summer about whether the Fed would feel pressure from President Donald Trump, who has been calling for lower interest rates. And the short-term cost of pain for the economy could be worth it if it gets inflation under control following years of staying too high.
On the downside for markets, higher rates would undercut prices for stocks and other investments. When investors are making more in interest from owning bonds, which are considered safer investments, they’re less willing to pay high prices for other kinds of investments. That’s beyond the effect higher rates have in slowing the economy in hopes of removing fuel for further acceleration of inflation.
Some reports on Thursday signaled the U.S. economy may be strong enough to withstand higher interest rates. One said fewer U.S. workers applied for unemployment benefits last week, the latest sign that the job market remains solid. Another said that manufacturing growth in the mid-Atlantic region was stronger than economists expected.
Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh said on Wednesday that a strengthening economy is one of the reasons Fed officials moved to raise interest rates after keeping them on hold through this year.
He also cited “geopolitics,” along with the threat that the increases in prices it’s causing could push up inflation elsewhere. That’s likely a nod to the war with Iran and its effect on oil prices.
On Wall Street, stocks in the artificial-intelligence industry continued to rebound following their worldwide slide on Monday after leaders of the AI industry called for a slowdown in development to address safety issues for humanity.
Nvidia climbed 1.8%, and Advanced Micro Devices rose 3.6%. That was even though OpenAI disclosed six more reports of “unexpected or concerning” behavior in AI models.
Stocks of several homebuilders also rose, even though a report showed the industry broke ground on fewer new homes last month than economists expected. The housing industry has been one of the hardest hit by the climb for the 10-year Treasury’s yield, which topped 5% this week for the first time since 2023 and has sent mortgage rates higher.
Thursday’s ease in yields helped offer some support, and D.R. Horton rose 0.8%, while PulteGroup added 0.6%. Rival Lennar fell 0.9% after reporting weaker profit and revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected.
In stock markets abroad, indexes rose across much of Europe following a weaker finish in Asia.
London’s FTSE 100 rose 0.8% after the Bank of England decided to keep its interest rates on hold.
AP Business Writers Chan Ho-him and Michelle Chapman contributed to this report.
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Screens display a news conference held by Federal Reserve chairman Kevin Warsh on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Screens display financial information on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Currency traders work at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Currency traders watch monitors near a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Currency traders pass by a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
