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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

Scott C. Ratzan is a lecturer at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy. 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. He is also adjunct clinical professor of public health and community medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine.

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.

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.

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.

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. Ratzan is the executive director of Business Partners to CONVINCE, a USCIB initiative promoting vaccine acceptance globally.

Ratzan assisted in the development of Text4Baby, a national health-related text messaging service for pregnant women.

References.

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  3. "Scott C. Ratzan MD, MPA, MA | AME". academicmedicaleducation.com. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  4. "Board on Global Health". National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  5. "New Council for Quality Health Communication Announced". O'Neill. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  6. "New Business Partnership for Sustainable Development Launched | USCIB". 2019-07-19. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  7. "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.
  8. 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.
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