PARSIPPANY, NJ--(Marketwired - Oct 29, 2014) -  Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide (www.ochww.com), the health behavior experts of Ogilvy & Mather (www.ogilvy.com), today announced the global network has had eight of its entries make the 2014 Global Awards' nominations shortlist.

Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide is a WPP company (NASDAQ: WPPGY) (www.wpp.com). The organization houses and maintains individual Ogilvy CommonHealth and Ogilvy Healthworld brand identities within the marketplace.

  • Ogilvy CommonHealth Asia Pacific's Sydney team was nominated in Advertising to the Consumer/Patient: Animal Health, Advertising to the Healthcare Professional: Animal Health and Art and Technique: Illustration; and Advertising to the Consumer/Patient: Over the Counter categories
  • The network's office in Brazil made the shortlist twice in one category - Advertising to the Consumer/Patient: Educational Awareness.
  • The Parsippany-based group was also nominated in two categories; Advertising to the Consumer/Patient: Health Institutions & Services; and Art and Technique: Art Direction.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the Global Awards is an an international competition that is committed to honoring excellence in healthcare and wellness communications. The Global Awards receives entries from healthcare corporations, hospitals, advertising agencies, production companies, and design studios that produce communications for medical, pharmaceutical, healthcare and wellness related products and services. This year's winners will be announced on Thursday, November 13, at galas that will be held simultaneously at the Helen Mills Theatre in New York City and at the Crystal Ballroom, in Sydney, Australia. For more information on the Global Awards and the full 2014 shortlist, visit: www.theglobalawards.com.

Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide (www.ochww.com) -- the health behavior experts of Ogilvy & Mather (www.ogilvy.com) -- committed to creativity and effectiveness in healthcare communications, everywhere. Our global headquarters are in Parsippany, NJ, with additional North American offices in Irvine, CA, Newtown, CT, Chapel Hill, NC, New York, NY and Toronto and Montreal, Canada. With 58 offices in 40 cities across 32 markets, our offices are located in key geographies aligned with healthcare's global footprint. Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide provides marketing services including behavioral insights, content strategy and management, digital, interactive and new media services, marketing analytics and research, media planning and buying, medical education, payer marketing and market access, professional advertising and promotion, public affairs and relations, relationship marketing, sales training development, and wellness and consumer advertising and promotion. The network also offers scientific communications and publications planning services through a wholly owned separate legal entity.