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I have been so fortunate in my career to have worked for leading health and academic institutions, innovative marketing firms, an international news agency and a few national newspapers.
I've written everything from white papers and grant applications to news stories, features, newsletters and website copy, and I've found that each assignment has made me a better writer. Clients include: The only organization of its kind in Canada, the Providence Heart + Lung Institute at St. Paul's Hospital unites all of Providence Health Care's heart and lung research, education and care programs under one umbrella. Johanna’s HLI publications include the Report on the first British Columbia Summit on Heart and Lung Health
Johanna worked for Kyodo News from 2000-2003 as an editor in the Tokyo Bureau (World Services Section), editing news and features. Her job was to give context and relevance to translated articles for Kyodo’s international audience. Kyodo News is Japan’s national news agency. Subscribers to Kyodo’s wire service include the International Herald Tribune, Yomiuri Daily News, the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France Presse (AFP), and many of the media outlets in South-East Asia. The position offered a crash course in international finance, politics – particularly in Asia – government, policy and communications. Kyodo also has an international bureau in New York. PROOF Centre for Excellence in Commercialization and Research
www.proofcentre.ca The PROOF CECR is member of the national Networks of Centres for Excellence (NCE). PROOF was created in 2008 with $15 million in funding from the NCE to fight the epidemic of vital organ failure in Canada. Johanna was a member of the core team that wrote the PROOF application, and is now one of PROOF's communications consultants. Johanna worked for full-time for the Internet Marketing Center from 2006-2009. While with the company, she wrote a wide variety of marketing copy, web copy, Internet marketing newsletters, promotional emails, SEO-optimized copy and more.
Johanna recently completed a project with PCHRI on a presentation to secure research funding from biopharmaceutical firms. The presentation debuted at the 2009 BioPartnering North America meeting. The BC BioLibrary is a unique initiative serving as a "fuel injection" system for biobanking in British Columbia.
The BC BioLibrary improves the ability to collect critically important biospecimens with an emphasis on standardized collection and annotation. Johanna has worked on several projects with the BioLibrary, most recently on their funding proposal to the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
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