Stephanie Desmon has been director of public relations and communications for the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs since June 2017. In this role, she oversees all aspects of communications for the center, including the website, social media, marketing materials and media relations.

Stephanie is also a co-host of Public Health On Call, an award-winning podcast produced by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and co-author of What If Fungi Win? (JHU Press, 2024), with Dr. Arturo Casadevall.

Prior to joining the center, Stephanie was director of media and public relations at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for three years and spent nearly five years in the media office at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Stephanie, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, spent the first 15 years of her career as a newspaper reporter, winning a number of national awards in various positions at the Baltimore Sun, the Palm Beach Post, the Florida Times-Union and the Birmingham Post-Herald. She has a Master of Arts in Science Writing from Johns Hopkins University.