Scott C. Ratzan

Scott C. Ratzan
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 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. 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.

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.

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

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.