Scott C. Ratzan is distinguished lecturer at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy.[1] He is also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Health Communication. He is adjunct professor at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.[2] He is also adjunct clinical professor of public health and community medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine.[3]
Scott C. Ratzan | |
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| Academic background | |
| Education | Occidental College (BA) Emerson College (MA) Harvard University (MPA) University of Southern California (MD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Medicine Public health Communications studies |
| Sub-discipline | Health communication Health literacy Medical diplomacy |
| Institutions | Tufts University Columbia University City University of New York |
Education
Ratzan earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in rhetoric from Occidental College. He has a Master of Arts in communication from Emerson College and a Master of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. He earned his Doctor of Medicine from the Keck School of Medicine of USC.[4]
Career
From 1998 to 2000, Ratzan was executive director of the AED. From 2000 to 2002, he served as a senior technical advisor at the United States Agency for International DevelopmentBureau of Global Health.
Ratzan was vice president for pharmaceuticals and global health at Johnson & Johnson.
He is a member of the Board of Global Health of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.[5]
From 2010 to 2013, Ratzan was the co-chair of Every Woman Every Child, a working group established by the United Nations to advance public healthcare for women and children. Ratzan co-chairs the Council for Quality Health Communication.[6]
In 2010, Ratzan gave testimony before the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs. The hearing was titled "Achieving the United Nations Millennium Goals: Progress through Partnerships.[7]
From 2018 to 2019, Scott Ratzan was Senior Fellow in the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government (M-RCBG) at Harvard Kennedy School. During his tenure at Harvard, he published Guiding Principles for Multisectoral Engagement for Sustainable Health. Ratzan was executive director of Business Partners for Sustainable Development, a group launched by United States Council for International Business to accelerate action on SDGs.[8] Ratzan is the executive director for Business Partners to CONVINCE, a USCIB initiative promoting vaccine acceptance globally.[9]
Scott Ratzan developed innovative business approaches to enhance health and sustainability. He spearheaded establishment of Text4Baby with the White House, a free national health texting messaging service for pregnant women.[10]