As members of the Brown University community, our faculty, staff and students have access to multimedia assets for professional use.
Office of Communications
Images & Multimedia
Do you promote department events? Post to your unit's social media accounts? We are offering a limited amount of free Canva licenses to staff who perform communications duties as part of their role here at the School of Public Health.
Need a headshot for your website or Vivo?
We can take headshots for SPH faculty, staff, and Ph.D. candidates.
Image libraries
Images of Brown University life from University Communications and other communications offices around campus. Contact Ken Zirkel to have access to the special School of Public Health collection. The SPH collection includes headshots of faculty and staff, SPH events, and photos of the building. Use your Brown username and password to login.
All Brown employees have access to Adobe’s standard stock imagery library. Simply sign with your full Brown email address and choose “Company or School Account,” then login with your Brown ID.
The Brown University Library collections of digital content, including dissertations, research data, Library collections, and more.
Highlights from the SPH image collection (images can be downloaded for use)
A free online medical image database from the NIH, with over 59,000 indexed and curated images, from over 12,000 patients.
Brown Image Use Policy
All images used in Brown projects, from whatever source, must comply with the University's Image Use Policy.
Video and Audio Production
Professional quality studio spaces available at the University for video and audio production.
Studio 225 is a multimedia studio downtown at 225 Dyer Street. They accommodate a wide range of media needs, including: Broadcast uplink to news networks; Video shoots against green screen or colored backdrops; Multi-camera, live-edited video interviews or panels; Remote teaching / virtual classroom; Video lectures or demonstrations; Trainings, rehearsals and review sessions; Audio podcasts
The Sidney E. Frank Digital Studio in the Rockefeller Library includes a video and audio recording studio.
Tutorials, resources, technical and creative help for video production, audio/podcasting, 3D printing, audio recording booths, and more.
The School of Public Health has audio and video gear that SPH staff and faculty can borrow for school communications projects.
Professional news media interviews
The News and Editorial team in the Office of University Communications manages Brown’s interview studio, which is equipped for broadcast-quality video and audio transmission.
Audio/Podcasting
Every step of podcasting from coming up with ideas to recording and post-production.
Adobe Audition is audio recording software; it is included as part of Brown's Adobe Creative Cloud license.
Video bumpers
This brief clip may be appended to the start of an official School of Public Health video.
Specs: H.264, 1920x1080, 16:9, 25 FPS (no sound).
Specs: H.264, 1920x1080, 16:9, 25 FPS (no sound).
This brief clip may be appended to the end of an official School of Public Health video.
Specs: H.264, 1920x1080, 16:9, 25 FPS (no sound).
Specs: H.264, 1920x1080, 16:9, 25 FPS (no sound).
Image editing tools
Under Brown's Adobe Enterprise agreement, this version of Creative Cloud software (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc) may be used on Brown-owned or personally-owned computers of Brown University paid faculty, staff and currently enrolled students. Adobe Creative Cloud software may not be installed on computers belonging to other institutions.
Don't need the complexity of Photoshop? Adobe Express has templates available for your posters and designs. Login with your Brown ID.
Free Photoshop-like image editor. Not supported by Brown.
Reasonably simple video editing software. Follow the installation instructions carefully.
Room 245 in the School of Public Health is capable of hosting a Zoom meeting, or use the OIT instructions to hold a Zoom meeting via your laptop or computer
Do you promote department events? Post to your unit's social media accounts? We are offering a limited amount of free Canva licenses to staff who perform communications duties as part of their role here at the School of Public Health.