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CUNY SPH is delighted to announce that Dr. Kenneth Rabin has been appointed distinguished scholar, after serving as senior scholar since 2020.
Dr. Rabin has more than 50 years of experience in public affairs, health communications and education. Currently, he is special projects editor of the Journal of Health Communications: International Perspectives and senior counselor at Alfa Communications in Warsaw.
Ken retired in 2007 as executive vice president and director of international healthcare at Ruder Finn in Washington, London, and Paris. During the course of his long career, he was also managing director of Burson-Marsteller’s worldwide healthcare practice, founding chairman of InterScience (a global healthcare PR company later acquired by 3BCom/Medicus), executive vice president and director of healthcare at Hill & Knowlton, and director of public affairs at Squibb (now BMS).
Prior to entering the corporate world, Ken was an associate professor and director of the graduate public relations program at American University in Washington, a communications specialist at Meharry Medical College, news director at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, and a USIA foreign service information officer in Africa. His textbook, Informing the People (Longmans, 1981) written with Ray Hiebert and others, was considered the standard authority in government public information for many years.
He has a bachelor’s degree from Cornell, master’s degrees from Yale and the University of North Carolina, and a PhD in higher education administration from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College.
In this new role, Dr. Rabin will collaborate with faculty on scholarship and research, special projects, and participate in related seminars. His efforts with these and other activities in the domain of public health, health communication, and education will also be a part of his engagement with CUNY SPH.
“We are honored to confer upon Dr. Rabin the title of distinguished scholar,” says CUNY SPH Dean Ayman El-Mohandes. “His extensive leadership experience in the realm of health communications will be indispensable to our success as we continue to flourish as an institution.”
