Where global health decisions get made, clarity matters most.

Washington is where global and public health strategy, funding, and policy converge: foundations, multilaterals, agencies, and advocacy organizations deciding where resources go and why. We help the people doing that work make complex science and data legible enough to move a decision.

ServingWashington, DC and the global health field

Focus hereOne Health · Global & public health · Policy communications

AudiencesDonors · Governments · Multilaterals · The public

PracticeGlobal health & development communications

The United States Capitol seen along Pennsylvania Avenue from the northwest. — Region Washington, DC — where global health funding and policy converge

Why Washington

Clarity is not a nicety.

The capital is the center of gravity for global and public health, where funders, policymakers, multilateral institutions, and advocacy organizations translate evidence into resource allocation and policy.

Much of that work is One Health at its core: the recognition that human, animal, and environmental health are one system. And the audiences are unforgiving. A visualization that misleads or a narrative that oversimplifies can move real dollars the wrong way.

How we help

Our global health and development communications practice lives here.

Led by people with deep roots in global health, journalism, and policy.

We bring strategic data visualization built for decisions, knowledge translation, One Health strategy, and communications calibrated for donors, governments, multilaterals, and the public.

Communications, Writing & PR

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Selected work for the global health field.

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Strategic data visualization

Built so busy decision-makers can act on complex data without losing the nuance.

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The COVID-19 public case study

Researched and published openly, updated 148 times, with figures used in Nature and by institutions worldwide.

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Voices of Periods

Narrative strategy for a women’s health advocacy campaign.

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Equitable self-test visual guides

Now used in 22 languages, across health departments and training centers.

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Our connection

We live here, and the practice is built for this room.

Cognition is headquartered in Seattle, and our Washington work is led by our global health communications team: Amy Flores-Dempsey, Rachel Poovathoor, and Jacqueline Deelstra. They are practitioners on the work, with deep roots in global health, journalism, and policy.

We partner with foundations, multilaterals, and mission-driven organizations across the global health field, among them the Global Financing Facility, and our global health communications practice is built specifically for the audiences that converge in Washington.

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