This biographical article is written like a résumé .(November 2024) |
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 |
Scott C. Ratzan is a 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]
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. [1]
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.[ citation needed ]
Ratzan was vice president for pharmaceuticals and global health at Johnson &Johnson.[ citation needed ]
He is a member of the Board of Global Health of the National Academies of Science,Engineering,and Medicine. [4]
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.[ citation needed ] Ratzan co-chairs the Council for Quality Health Communication. [5]
From 2018 to 2019,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. [6] Ratzan is the executive director of Business Partners to CONVINCE,a USCIB initiative promoting vaccine acceptance globally. [7]
Ratzan assisted in the development of Text4Baby,a national health-related text messaging service for pregnant women. [8]
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