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
Academic background
EducationOccidental College (BA)
Emerson College (MA)
Harvard University (MPA)
University of Southern California (MD)
Academic work
DisciplineMedicine
Public health
Communications studies
Sub-disciplineHealth communication
Health literacy
Medical diplomacy
InstitutionsTufts University
Columbia University
City University of New York

Education edit

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 edit

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]

References. edit

  1. ^ "Scott Ratzan". CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  2. ^ "Scott Ratzan, MD". Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. 2022-12-01. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  3. ^ "Scott C. Ratzan MD, MPA, MA | AME". academicmedicaleducation.com. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  4. ^ "Scott Ratzan". CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  5. ^ "Board on Global Health". National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  6. ^ "New Council for Quality Health Communication Announced". O'Neill. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  7. ^ "- ACHIEVING THE UNITED NATIONS MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS: PROGRESS THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS". www.govinfo.gov. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  8. ^ "New Business Partnership for Sustainable Development Launched | USCIB". 2019-07-19. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  9. ^ "BP2C's Scott Ratzan Speaks on CDC Podcast, Discusses Health Communication and Mentions USCIB Foundation Initiative | Business Partners 2 Convince". businesspartners2convince.org. 2023-11-28. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  10. ^ Whittaker, Robyn; Matoff-Stepp, Sabrina; Meehan, Judy; Kendrick, Juliette; Jordan, Elizabeth; Stange, Paul; Cash, Amanda; Meyer, Paul; Baitty, Julie; Johnson, Pamela; Ratzan, Scott; Rhee, Kyu (December 2012). "Text4baby: Development and Implementation of a National Text Messaging Health Information Service". American Journal of Public Health. 102 (12): 2207–2213. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2012.300736. ISSN 0090-0036. PMC 3519339. PMID 23078509.