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Media Relations and Public Affairs
The Johns Hopkins Medicine Division of Media Relations and Public Affairs is Johns Hopkins Medicine's official communications link to local, national and international media. The media relations staff supports The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, with centralized, coordinated communications, providing round-the-clock services and products for print, online and electronic media and is the official JHM institutional, faculty and staff link to news media.
The Media Relations staff is available to respond to journalists' inquiries and requests. In addition to providing news releases and tip sheets, we also provide:
- Photographs and digital images
- Interview scheduling
- Studio for on-site radio taping or remote interviewing
- Background information on research and faculty
All Hopkins Press Offices
Broadcast Services
- Health NewsFeed
Health NewsFeed, a daily radio news service offering one-minute "packages" of Hopkins-vetted medical information to millions of listeners via satellite and the Web, is also produced and distributed by the Media Relations team.
- Podcasts
Johns Hopkins Medicine is pleased to present its new health podcast, a lively discussion of the week’s medical news and how it may affect you. This seven to ten-minute free program features Rick Lange, M.D., chief of clinical cardiology, and Elizabeth Tracey, director of the Hopkins Health NewsFeed, a radio news service program.
- RSS Service: Johns Hopkins Medicine press releases
Johns Hopkins Medicine science and medical news is now available through an RSS service, free of charge.
Studio Services
Through the appropriate media representative, Johns Hopkins experts can be interviewed at a local satellite-capable video studio for live or live-to-tape television interviews. The studio is available 24/7. Please contact your media representative to make the arrangements.
Subscribe to our Listserv
Many of our news releases are distributed under embargo. Only journalists and working freelance writers are eligible to subscribe. To enroll in our direct e-mail news service, e-mail bsimpkins@jhmi.edu. Please include your name, email address and media organization you work for.
After-Hours Calls
Reporters calling before or after regular business hours, should call 410-955-6070 and ask the operator to page the Media Relations representative on-call.
Johns Hopkins Medicine Media Relations & Public Affairs
901 S. Bond Street, Suite 550
Baltimore, MD 21231
410-955-4288 or 410-614-6652