Contact Public Affairs

External Communications & Media Relations, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital

Email: mediarelations@bwh.harvard.edu

The Media Relations office 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 a representative through the hospital's 24-hour paging service at (617) 732-6660 and ask for the media relations person on call.

Media Relations Team

Jessica Pastore, Director, External Communications
Phone: (617) 874-6346; jpastore@bwh.harvard.edu

Serena Bronda, Program Manager, External Communications
Phone: (857) 352-3874; sbronda@bwh.harvard.edu

Cassandra Falone, Senior Specialist, External Communications
Phone: (617) 721-0537; cfalone@mgb.org

Responsibilities

BWH's Media Relations team is responsible for:

  • 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.
  • Communicating effectively with external audiences, including community and patient audiences.
  • 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.
  • Overseeing the News section on brighamandwomens.org and developing and delivering other electronic, video and Web-based communications.

Please note: The Media Relations staff must escort all broadcast media and photographers while on the BWH campus. Please contact us to arrange all video graphic and photographic shoots.

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