Avice A. Meehan

Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs

Avice A. Meehan has served as HHMI's Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs since 2002. Responsible for a portfolio that includes media relations, publications, the HHMI Web site, special events, and public outreach, she leads the Institute’s work to inform a wide range of external audiences about HHMI’s work and accomplishments.

Meehan joined HHMI from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, where she served for eight years as vice president, public affairs. At Memorial Sloan-Kettering she managed a fast-paced, issues-driven communications agenda and an active media relations, Web, and publications program. Prior to that, Meehan served Connecticut governor Lowell P. Weicker, first as communications director for his gubernatorial campaign and then, for nearly four years, as his press secretary.

A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Meehan also earned a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She started her professional career as a journalist, working for 12 years for newspapers in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York.

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