ISMPP Committees and Objectives

ISMPP's Volunteer Committees are the foundation of our mission, strategically structured into five dynamic pillars: Medical Communications, Medical Publications, Collaborations & Outreach, Education, and Credentialing. Each pillar encompasses dedicated committees, driving initiatives that align with their unique objectives. Explore the committees under these pillars and gain insight into their impactful goals below.

Medical Communications

The Medical Communications pillar advances effective and evolving approaches to communicating scientific and medical information. Its committees foster high-quality scientific communication across digital, visual, multichannel, and AI-mediated environments; generate insights to understand performance and impact; and facilitate professional dialogue on issues shaping medical communications and publications.

Digital Engagement & Visual Communications Committee

The Digital Engagement & Visual Communications Committee develops practical guidance and resources to help members communicate scientific information effectively across evolving digital, visual, multichannel, and AI-mediated environments.

Priorities for 2027

  • Enhanced Scientific Communications: Advance practical guidance for digital and visual publication extenders, accessibility, and effective scientific communication.
  • Multichannel Scientific Engagement: Develop practical guidance for publication-linked multichannel and omnichannel strategies, incorporating relevant social media practices.
  • AI-Mediated Scientific Content Discoverability: Build on GEO and LLM research to develop practical guidance for how scientific content is discovered, cited, and represented by AI platforms.

Metrics & Insights Committee

The Metrics & Insights Committee helps medical communications and publications professionals identify, interpret, and apply meaningful metrics to evaluate publication performance and impact and inform better decisions.

Priorities for 2027

  • Practical Metrics & Impact Resources: Develop practical resources, including a common metrics lexicon and frameworks connecting publication objectives with meaningful measures.
  • Measuring Reach, Engagement & Impact: Advance approaches to evaluating journal publications, congress activities, publication extenders, digital engagement, and other forms of scientific communication.
  • Metrics for Decision-Making: Develop guidance and tools that help members turn metrics and insights into better publication planning, evaluation, and course correction.
  • Emerging Measurement Needs: Address new measurement needs arising from evolving channels, technologies, and AI-mediated discovery.

The ISMPP Insider Blog Committee

The ISMPP Insider Blog Committee shapes ISMPP Insider as a trusted forum for timely insights, practical perspectives, and professional dialogue on issues affecting medical communications and publications.

Priorities for 2027

  • Editorial Direction & Curation: Identify timely issues, content gaps, potential topics, and voices to help shape the overall ISMPP Insider editorial calendar.
  • In Practice: Identify and evaluate topics for substantive commentary, cultivate contributors, and provide editorial guidance to authors.
  • Content Lab & Community Perspectives: Develop accessible content from ISMPP meetings, expert discussions, and other sources, and engage members through What Would You Do? scenarios and polls.

Medical Publications

The Medical Publications pillar supports high-quality, ethical, transparent, and responsible medical publication practices. Its committees develop practical guidance, tools, and resources across the publication lifecycle and help professionals navigate evolving ethical standards, expectations, and challenges that affect the integrity and trustworthiness of the scientific record.

Publication Practices Committee

The Publication Practices Committee develops practical guidance, tools, and resources to help medical publication professionals plan, develop, and deliver publications effectively.

Priorities for 2027

  • Strategic Publication Planning: Expand the toolkit with additional guidance and resources.
  • Tactical Publication Planning: Develop practical, “grab-and-go” tools and templates that connect publication strategy with effective execution.
  • Publications Primer: Advance the updated Primer as a foundational resource on publication planning and development.
  • Emerging Publication Practices: Translate evolving policies, standards, technologies, and expectations into practical guidance for members.

Publication Ethics & Standards Committee

The Publication Ethics & Standards Committee promotes ethical, transparent, and responsible practices across medical publications and helps professionals navigate the standards that support integrity and trust in the scientific record.

Priorities for 2027

  • Authorship & Contributorship: Support the launch and adoption of AAT 2.0 and related authorship resources and address emerging authorship issues.
  • Code of Ethics: Complete and support implementation of the revised ISMPP Code of Ethics.
  • Publication Integrity: Build on the Quad-P work while addressing emerging challenges to the integrity and trustworthiness of the scientific publication record.
  • Responsible AI: Help members navigate evolving expectations for responsible AI use, transparency, disclosure, documentation, and accountability in publications.

Collaborations & Outreach

The Collaborations & Outreach pillar strengthens connections across the medical communications and publications community and brings diverse perspectives, needs, and expertise into ISMPP. Its committees build relationships with professional organizations and communities, foster engagement across geographic regions, and support the distinct needs of professionals working in smaller organizations and those who are new to or exploring careers in the field.

Asia Pacific & Intercontinental Regions Collaborations & Outreach Committee

The Asia Pacific & Intercontinental Regions Collaborations & Outreach Committee strengthens connections between ISMPP and medical communications and publications communities across Asia Pacific and other international regions.

Priorities for 2027

  • Regional Connections & Partnerships: Maintain and develop relationships with professional organizations, institutions, and medical communications communities across established and emerging regions.
  • Regional Perspectives & Priorities: Surface regional developments, needs, challenges, and opportunities that can inform ISMPP programs, resources, and priorities.
  • Regional Engagement: Connect regional professionals and expertise with relevant ISMPP activities and opportunities.

Professional Collaborations & Outreach Committee

The Professional Collaborations & Outreach Committee builds relationships with professional societies and other organizations across the medical communications, publications, and scholarly publishing ecosystem.

Priorities for 2027

  • Professional Society Partnerships: Maintain and develop relationships with relevant professional organizations and identify opportunities for meaningful collaboration.
  • Scientific Society & Publishing Connections: Continue developing relationships with scientific societies and publishing stakeholders around shared issues in scientific communication and publishing.
  • Emerging Professional Issues: Identify issues where collaboration can bring complementary expertise and perspectives to ISMPP and its members.

Small Companies & New Professionals Collaborations & Outreach Committee

The Small Companies & New Professionals Collaborations & Outreach Committee addresses the distinct needs of professionals working in smaller organizations and people who are new to or exploring careers in medical communications and publications.

Priorities for 2027

  • Small Company Needs & Resources: Identify practical challenges facing professionals in smaller organizations and develop or connect them with relevant resources and peer perspectives.
  • New Professional Development & Engagement: Help early-career professionals and those entering or transitioning into the field understand the profession, career paths, and available resources.
  • Career Awareness & Outreach: Build awareness of medical communications and publications careers among graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and other prospective professionals.

Education

Committees under the Education pillar empower medical publications and communications professionals with high-quality learning experiences. Through its committees, it delivers tailored educational programs, regional and global meeting content, webinars, and on-demand resources, ensuring continuous professional growth and knowledge advancement in the field. Across all Education committees, members contribute by: 1) brainstorming and prioritizing session topics aligned with the meeting theme and member needs; 2) identifying and recruiting qualified session presenters; and 3) partnering with fellow committee members to manage assigned sessions, including developing session briefs, supporting faculty, and participating in kick-off and run-through calls. 

Academy Program Committee

The Academy Program Committee is responsible for developing educational programming for the ISMPP Academy. This includes practical, best practices-focused content designed for professionals working with or at biotechnology, small pharma, and medical device companies, as well as those who are newer to the field or seeking to deepen their expertise of best practices. This committee is typically active from July through November.

Annual Meeting Program Committee

The Annual Meeting Program Committee is responsible for shaping the educational content of ISMPP’s Annual Meeting. Committee members collaborate to develop a well-rounded agenda that addresses a variety of professional roles, experience levels, and topic areas relevant to medical publications and communications. This committee is typically active from August to May.

Asia Pacific Education Committee

The Asia Pacific Education Committee is responsible for developing the content plan for ISMPP U webinars tailored to professionals in the Asia Pacific region. These webinars address regionally relevant challenges, trends, and best practices in medical publications and communications.

European Meeting Program Committee

The European Meeting Program Committee is responsible for shaping the educational content of ISMPP’s European Meeting. Committee members collaborate to develop a well-rounded agenda that addresses a variety of professional roles, experience levels, and topic areas relevant to medical publications and communications and with a particular focus in the region.

ISMPP U Committee

The ISMPP U Committee is responsible for developing the content plan for ISMPP’s monthly webinar series, including MedComms Day. These webinars provide timely, practical education across a range of topics relevant to medical publication and communication professionals.

On-Demand Education Committee - New for 2025-2026!

The new On-Demand Education Committee plays a vital role in shaping ISMPP’s on-demand educational offerings, including e-learning and podcasts, by identifying and creating timely, relevant content independently and in collaboration with other committees, task forces, and sponsors. This committee drives the development of high-quality educational experiences for professionals in medical publications and communications by assessing educational gaps, contributing to content strategy, engaging subject-matter experts, and supporting the creation of engaging learning materials. Active year-round, the committee operates with varying levels of engagement based on project timelines, ensuring the ongoing evolution and relevance of ISMPP’s educational resources. Accountable for broad digital education, the On-Demand Education Committee includes a subcommittee for Small Companies & New Professionals elearning.

Credentialing

The pillar supports the activities of the ISMPP CMPP™ Program and consists of two volunteer committees—the Recertification Committee and the CMPP Newsletter Committee. Eligible members of the credentialing pillar are professionals with current ISMPP CMPP™ status.

Recertification Committee

The Recertification Committee is dedicated to maintaining, elevating, and evolving the CMPP™ Recertification Program. This committee identifies and evaluates both ISMPP and non-ISMPP educational opportunities (eg, courses, industry meeting sessions, self-study activities) for recertification continuing education credits, ensuring alignment with CMPP certification content domains and Certification Board policies. The Committee ensures the roster of approved courses and credit assignments remains current and relevant. Bringing together subject matter experts from the global CMPP community, the Committee works directly with the Director of Credentialing to maintain all aspects of the CMPP Recertification Program. Members of this Committee must hold the ISMPP CMPP™ credential.

CMPP™ Newsletter Committee

The CMPP™ Newsletter Committee will be the gateway to staying connected with the global CMPP Community via CMPP Matters, the quarterly CMPP newsletter. The newsletter provides timely updates on the latest happenings in the “CMPP” world, including spotlights on selected CMPPs, upcoming credit opportunities, and important program updates. This committee, composed of members from the global CMPP community, will collaborate with the Director of Credentialing to develop relevant content for quarterly issues. Members of this newly created Committee must hold the ISMPP CMPP credential.