Stephanie Bialek serves as communications chief for the Strategic National Stockpile. Ms Bialek joined the SNS during the height of the 2009 H1N1 Influenza pandemic to provide communications expertise and technical assistance to public health partners at the state, tribal, territorial, and local levels. Since then, she has served as the SNS public information officer for emergency responses to a variety of threats, including Ebola, Zika, botulism, natural disasters, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
In her tenure as communications chief, Ms Bialek has assembled a team of professional communicators to advance the work of the SNS and to support public health, healthcare, emergency management, and industry partners in their planning and response efforts. She is an expert in crisis and emergency risk communications, manages national and international media relations for the SNS, and participates quarterly as an instructor for the SNS Operations Course held at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness. Prior to joining the SNS, Ms Bialek was director of marketing and communications for the Georgia Conservancy, a non-profit organization committed to ecological and economic solutions for stewardship, conservation, and sustainable use of the land and its resources. She also served in public relations roles at Emory University’s Office of University Media Relations and its Yerkes National Primate Research Center. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism with a major in public relations and a Master of Arts with a focus on mass communications, both from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism.
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