Working with Cancer: Helping Employers Support Employees Impacted by Cancer

icon mic

June 10, 2025

Upon receiving a cancer diagnosis, many patients quickly ask about their ability to continue working through treatment. Work can be vital for the healing process as it offers both a sense of control and connection, and perhaps more importantly, continued alignment with one’s purpose and identity.

In this episode, Gina Jacobson, Program Director, Publicis Groupe, shares her personal story with cancer and how her experience helped inspire the Working with Cancer pledge. Offering guidance and best practices to support employees impacted by cancer, the pledge helps employers design recovery-forward workplaces.

This episode has received the 32nd Annual Communicator Award: Award of Distinction.

31st Annual Communicator Award of Distinction badge;

SPEAKERS

Gina Jacobson | Program Director, Publicis Groupe

Ellen Kelsay | President and CEO, Business Group on Health

Duration 38 min

Subscribe To The Podcast

All Podcasts

Showing items 61-70 of 128
Sep 01, 2023
Turning Guidelines into Action: WHO on Mental...
Listen to our podcast with Dr. Aiysha Malik to learn more about how employers can use the World Health Organization’s Mental...
Read more
Aug 16, 2023
The Power of Trusted Messengers: Reaching Those...
Listen to this podcast interview with Derrick Feldmann at the Ad Council Research Institute to learn about how employers can...
Read more
Jul 26, 2023
From Factory to Pharmacy: Navigating the Future of...
Hear from Dr. Karen Van Nuys about the current developments related to the pharmaceutical supply chain and key areas for employers...
Read more
Jul 10, 2023
You Are What You Eat: Nutritional Psychiatry's...
Listen to our podcast interview with Dr. Uma Naidoo to learn more about the how food can impact our brain health and mental...
Read more
Jun 12, 2023
Menopause and Work: Thriving Through Transition
Listen to our podcast to hear from Dr. Stephanie Faubion about how employers can support employees experiencing the menopause...
Read more
May 30, 2023
Going Beyond the Placebo Effect: the Impact of...
Listen to our podcast with Dr. Kari Leibowitz to gain insight into how we can improve health outcomes through a mindset shift.
Read more
May 15, 2023
Life Expectancy is Decreasing: Investigating the...
U.S. life expectancy has worsened in the last decade- Dr. Steven Woolf tells us why. Listen to our podcast to learn about how we...
Read more
Apr 28, 2023
Why the Message and Messenger Matter: Improving...
If health literacy is a social determinant of health, why isn’t it prioritized more broadly by those in the health care system?...
Read more
Apr 17, 2023
Bringing Care Outside the Hospital and Into the...
What if instead of going to the hospital when we became sick, the hospital came to us? That’s the topic of today’s Business Group...
Read more
Mar 27, 2023
Friends at Work: Why Connecting with Colleagues is...
On this episode of the Business Group on Health podcast, we speak with author Shasta Nelson on how employers can recognize the...
Read more
Showing items 61-70 of 128