Public Affairs
Department of Public Affairs
321 Columbus Avenue, 5th Floor
Boston, MA, 02116
Phone: (617) 534-1600
Fax: 617-534-1610
Page Public Affairs On Call: 617-732-6660
The Department of Public Affairs is staffed from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. Members of the media who require assistance after hours, on the weekends or holidays should contact Public Affairs through the hospital's 24-hour paging service at (617) 732-6660 and ask for the media relations person on call.
Please note: BWH Public Affairs staff must escort all broadcast media and photographers while on the BWH campus. Please contact us to arrange all video graphic and photographic shoots.
BWH's Department of Public Affairs oversees media relations and internal communications and media relations.
This includes:
• Responding to hundreds of media inquiries each year from local, national and international media outlets that seek information on our groundbreaking research, medical milestones and expert opinions on a broad range of healthcare topics.
• Producing ‘Your Health’ videos with Brigham and Women’s Hospital experts for the media and the News section of the BWH Internet.
• Providing on-campus TV studio facilities to the broadcast news media for live or live-to-tape interviews of BWH faculty and experts, administrators and staff. The BWH TV Studio is fully equipped with professional studio lighting and a state-of-the-art television camera.
• Producing publications.
• Managing BWH Community Connects, the digital signage located across the distributed campus.
• Overseeing the News section on www.brighamandwomens.org and developing and delivering other electronic, video and Web-based communications.
• Managing Brigham and Women’s Hospital News social networking sites on Facebook and Twitter.
• Managing PikeNotes, the BWH intranet, for more than 15,000 employees and medical and research staff.
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