Communications
Employee Communications
Internal communications is crucial in the College of Medicine. Communicating internally helps to keep our employees and students informed and engaged about everything that is going on in our college.
The best way to reach our employees and students is through The COMmunicator, the dedicated internal communications newsletter. Have a great story or announcement for The COMmunicator? Submit it using the Workfront form below.
Proactive Media and Crisis Communications
The communications and media team members provide oversight and direction for College of Medicine issues of reputational significance to create integrated communications strategies and positive approaches to promoting institutional goals. This team proactively identifies needs, researches and leads communications strategy and coordinates execution across multiple colleges, units and partners. They serve as a key liaison for internal and external stakeholders to ensure that the communications strategy is integrated with the university. This team is also the primary responder and lead for crisis communications and key issues across the college.
Media and Public Relations
The communications team offers media relations’ support and coordination acting as a conduit between external media outlets and the institution. With access to patient health information (PHI) is very important that the media team be involved anytime media is present. This protects our faculty and students and ultimately the college and university. The media relations team enhances the reputation and visibility of the College of Medicine, fosters accuracy and generates goodwill through daily work with local, regional, national and international media. The media relations team also feeds content to Penn State News and Penn State Health News. The media relations team responds to media inquiries and can assist with finding faculty experts, filming requests or escorting media on campus.
If the media reaches out to you directly, please contact our office and we will assist in coordination. Please do not speak on behalf of the organization without contacting our office.