Scott C. Ratzan is an American academic working as a distinguished lecturer at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Health Communication.

Education

Ratzan earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in rhetoric from Occidental College, a Master of Arts in communication from Emerson College, a Master of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Doctor of Medicine from the Keck School of Medicine of USC.^[1]

Career

From 1998 to 2000, Ratzan worked as the executive director of the AED. From 2000 to 2002, he served as a senior technical advisor in the United States Agency for International Development's Bureau of Global Health. Ratzan then spent 11 years at Johnson & Johnson as a vice president for pharmaceuticals and global health. From 2010 to 2013, he 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. In 2012, Ratzan became an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. From 2018 to 2019, he was Senior Fellow in the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government (M-RCBG), at Harvard Kennedy School. where he published Guiding Principles for Multisectoral Engagement for Sustainable Health. Since 1998, he also has been an adjunct clinical professor of public health and community medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine.^[2]

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References

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