Biography
Randy Schwartz, MSPH, is a nationally recognized public health professional with over thirty years experience in implementing health promotion/disease prevention initiatives in state health department and voluntary health organizations with an emphasis on chronic disease prevention and control, cancer control, tobacco control and community-based health promotion. He brings extensive expertise in tobacco prevention and control interventions and policy and their integration for comprehensive tobacco control strategies. He is currently a Public Health Consultant and adjunct faculty member for the University of New Mexico, College of Population Health.
Randy served as Sr. VP, Health Systems at the American Cancer Society national Cancer Control Department from March 2015 to September 2017. Prior to this, he served as Vice President for Health Systems for the ACS, New England Division (2000-2015), implementing the Division's Program of Work for Cancer Prevention, Cancer Detection, and Quality of Life/Patient Support.to reduce the burden of cancer on the communities and citizens in the six-states of New England. Before this work at ACS, he was Director of the Division of Community and Family Health of the Maine Bureau of Health (now Maine CDC), where he worked for seventeen years, fifteen of which were in a senior position as a Division Director. In that role, he directed all chronic disease prevention and control and health promotion programs (including cancer control, CVD prevention, tobacco prevention and control and community health promotion), as well as the maternal and child health and public health nursing programs. In these positions he has directed the implementation and evaluation of health promotion/disease prevention interventions (with a concentration in cancer prevention and control/tobacco control) in multiple settings including community, worksite, health care and public policy.
He has authored or co-authored numerous articles on health promotion and chronic disease prevention.
Randy is the Founding Editor of the journal, Health Promotion Practice, a journal of the Society for Public Health Education. He has been awarded the Society for Public Health Education’s Distinguished Fellow Award, the Society’s highest honor.
Areas of Specialty
- Global Health
- Community-based Public Health Practice
- Chronic Disease Prevention and Control
Courses Taught
- Global Health Challenges and Responses
- Population Health Evidenced-Based Practices