As members of the Brown University community, our faculty, staff and students have access to multimedia assets for professional use.
Office of Communications & Events
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 Highlights: the best of SPH images
These are a selection of the best, most used images from the School of Public Health. If you are utilizing these images for marketing or promotion efforts, you must clear image usage rights with the subject in the photos.
Image libraries
Images of Brown University life from University Communications and other communications offices around campus.The SPH collection includes headshots of faculty and staff, SPH events, and photos of the building. Use your Brown username and password to login. NOTE: You must contact Ken Zirkel to have access to the special School of Public Health collection.
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.
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.
The School of Public Health has audio and video gear that SPH staff and faculty can borrow for school communications projects.
The Granoff Center for the Creative Arts has a professional recording studio. The Brown Arts Institutute, through CATS, make this resource available to the Brown community by offering free sessions with a Recording Assistant.
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.
Spaces for video production, music recording, podcasting, fine art printing, 3D printing, virtual reality, electronics, vinyl and laser cutting, sewing, and much more. The goal is to lower the barrier of entry to these technologies for creatives by providing access to equipment, software, and spaces to work.
New to podcasting, video, 3D printing, or Photoshop and would like a little extra support? The BAI student Creative Technology Assistants, or CTAs for short, are here to help! MML CTAs are all accomplished creatives in their own right, and will be great partners for you in your creative 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.
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.