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Marketing and Communications is part of the Office of Advancement at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. We work to increase the national and global visibility of the school; attract the kind of students, faculty and staff who will thrive here; be a resource to our alumni, partners and colleagues; and foster engagement with all the school's constituencies.

  • Rhonda DeLong, Director of Marketing and Communications, rmdelong@umich.edu 734-764-8748
  • Terri Mellow, Senior Media Strategist, twm@umich.edu 734-764-8094
  • Laurel Thomas Gnagey, Senior Public Relations Strategist, ltgnagey@umich.edu 734-647-1841
  • Leslie Stainton, Editor of Findings Magazine, stainton@umich.edu 734-936-1246
  • Mari Ellis, Web Communication Specialist, mtellis@umich.edu 734-615-2279

Office of Marketing and Communications, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029

Media Inquiries

For general media inquiries or requests, please contact Senior Media Strategist, Terri Mellow, twm@umich.edu or 734-764-8094. For news releases or news-related information, please contact Laurel Thomas Gnagey, ltgnagey@umich.edu or 734-647-1841.

SPH Digital Signage

The SPH Office of Marketing and Communications manages the content that appears on digital signs at UM SPH. General content is routed to department signs, along with departmental event listings. Each department has designated liaisons to provide department-specific content for the signs. Please note that content cannot be fed to the interactive signs in the lobbies of SPH I and II except via the event listings.

If you would like to add content to a digital sign, please contact your departmental liaison or send email to sph.web@umich.edu. Preferred formats are PowerPoint slides; PDFs and images should be landscape style (wider than they are tall). Please be sure that you hold copyright to any content you submit for display. Read more about our digital signage.

SPH Display Cases

Display Case Policy and Exhibit Application (PDF) - Dimensions of Cases:

Event and Announcement Publicity Tips

When publicizing an event, announcement, or opportunity via e-mail at SPH, please be considerate about the file size and the number of announcements you send to the school e-mail groups sph.faculty, sph.staff, and umsph-open. Usually 1 or 2 messages will be enough to reach people who are likely to act upon your information. More than that risks becoming a nuisance. To get your news out:

  1. Submit events to the SPH online calendar. This will broadcast via RSS to subscribers and the SPH Twitter feed, and on new digital signage in the cafe and appropriate departments. It will also generate a URL for your event that you can link to.
  2. Post your event or announcement to the SPH Facebook wall.
  3. Utilize the umsph-open@umich.edu forum that reaches SPH students and others who have opted-in.
  4. Build a contact list of people likely to show up at your events. Suggest also that they subscribe to the SPH online calendar's RSS feed for news about upcoming events.
  5. Contact the Office of Communications for assistance publicizing your events via SPH web home page headlines, more.
  6. Send major-event announcements to the University Record at urecord@umich.edu, the Ann Arbor Observer at events@arborweb.com, and the ASPH Friday Letter at submissions@asph.org.
  7. Remember, in any communication at the U-M, you must follow university rules. Do not use e-mail for political endorsements or unauthorized solicitations, for example. SPH Associate Dean for Research Al Franzblau points out: "E-mail recruitment of human subjects has some ‘rules,’ among them being that the message must provide the Institutional Review Board contact information and must include the IRB project number. Also, email recruitment messages (and how they are sent out) are required to be approved in advance by the IRB."

Press Release Boilerplate

The University of Michigan School of Public Health has been working to promote health and prevent disease since 1941, and is consistently ranked among the top schools in the country. Faculty and students in the school's five academic departments and dozens of collaborative centers and institutes are forging new solutions to the complex health challenges of today, including chronic disease, health care quality and finance, emerging genetic technologies, climate change, socioeconomic inequalities and their impact on health, infectious disease, and the globalization of health. Whether making new discoveries in the lab or researching and educating in the field, our faculty, students, and alumni are deployed around the globe to promote and protect our health.

Photo and Video Permissions

When filming, videotaping or photographing in a public space where people don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy, for example in the stadium, there is no need to seek permission from adults to capture images for news or archival purposes. Always get permission from parents of children, however. As a courtesy, when filming, videotaping or photographing for a commercial movie, marketing materials or photographs for sale in a public space, U-M recommends you let people know that they may be caught on film so they can choose to avoid the shot. This can be done with a sign or leaflet handed out.

When filming, videotaping or photographing individuals for marketing purposes, a documentary-style production, an interview or a performance capture, we ask for permission.

As a rule, we don’t seek permission from faculty to film or videotape interviews, unless we are capturing a proprietary performance. It is assumed by virtue of their employment that we can capture comments about their work. We do seek permission from students when they are interviewed.

A pocket card (PDF) and a full-size release form (PDF) are available.