OUR SERVICE
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Aravis has a proven track record of consistently delivering quality products in a very timely manner. This is a result of employing talent across several time zones. From Singapour via Florence and Toronto all the way to Los Angeles, our team strikes the balance between speed and precision when crafting communications.
CONSULTING, PUBLIC AFFAIRS, COMMUNICATIONS, AND ADVOCACY
This has also involved substantive work on cross-cutting issues in global health, migration, urbanization and the digital economy. The sustainable development agenda, related goals, indicators and systemic interconnectedness provide effective guideposts for integration and brokerage between governments, think-tanks, research institutes, public-private partnerships, foundations, corporations and investors.
OUR TEAM
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Elana Hazghia has over thirteen years of experience designing, implementing and scaling impactful health and development programs. Her experience has focused on health, women's empowerment, education, and community investment across Latin America, North America, Africa and India. She has forged solutions to health challenges such as nutrition, maternal and child health, malaria and HIV.
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Simon Young: A British author and editor based in Italy, Simon has written for publications from the Spectator to the Guardian and from History Today to Fortean Times. He teaches at the University of Virginia (Siena, CET) and is about to publish his eighth book, with University of Exeter Press. He leads Aravis' work on copy-editing and speech writing.
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Sierin Lim: Aravis is honored to have Dr. Sierin Lim as an expert reviewer of our scientific output. She is an associate professor of bioengineering and the Assistant Chair (Research) at the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore.
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Katy Orell: is a communications expert with over a decade of experience working in global health. WHO, PAHO, the UN and Geneva's Graduate Institute have all benefitted from her ability to coin a story. She is currently taking her knack for communication into new directions through a TEFL Certification.
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Paul Kasper: Our manager, Paul, has over twenty years of experience in teaching English/Spanish, editing, content creation, translation and research. He organizes the Aravis family and weighs in with a red pen as our projects begin to take shape.
We at Aravis believe that the fourth SDG, Quality Education, is essential for reaching the UN's objectives in global development for 2030. We have over four decades of combined experience in the classroom and strong ties to academia. We often use our linguistic and pedagogical skills to teach technical writing courses. Our connections and experience drive our innovative approach to each new project and our network of expertise allows us to scale up at a moment's notice.
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Many people ask us if we at Aravis are worried about Artificial Intelligence taking over our line of work. We see it as analogous to the prêt à porter phenomenon starting in the late 1860s in that there will always be a need for tailor-made quality. First-rate writing and translation will always stand apart from their artificial counterparts as the human eye has evolved over eons to sort between forgeries and excellence. This is not to say that we have our heads in the sand--we understand the capacity of this beneficial tool and use it to improve our process.
We've just copy edited several documents on Security Sector Reform and Governace for DCAF. Before that we edited a strategy for CEPHEID and wrote a generic funding document about Penicillin for The WHO. Other previous clients include VAXSEEN, for whom we submitted an entry for Vaccine Passports to the Gates Grand Challenge and the TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative (TBVI).
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Aravis Global Advisors
bringing our expertise and excellence to projects since 2016.
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