Suzanne Babich

About

Suzanne Babich is a practitioner scholar dedicated to leading and supporting change to improve the public’s health. She is Associate Dean of Global Health and Professor, Health Policy and Management, at the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health in Indianapolis, Indiana USA. There she directs the Doctoral Program in Global Health Leadership, a unique professional distance doctoral degree program for mid- to senior-level health practitioners working full-time around the world. An award-winning educator, Dr. Babich has extensive experience in online education and competency based curricula. She has a special interest in international, interdisciplinary education and applications of technology for innovative approaches to programming.

She served for nine years on the US-based Council on Accreditation of Health Management Education (CAHME). She is an adjunct member of the Board of Accreditation, European Agency for Public Health Education Accreditation (APHEA), where she leads accreditation reviews worldwide for online graduate public health programs. She held leadership roles with the US-based Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) for more than ten years, developing professional doctoral program curricula, pedagogy and policy. She earned a doctorate in public health from the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. She holds BS and MS degrees in human nutrition and maintains credentials as a registered dietitian. A professional health writer and former newspaper columnist, she is also (as Suzanne Havala Hobbs) the author of 14 consumer diet and health books and more than 600 newspaper columns and magazine articles translating research into practical recommendations for the public. A champion of public universities, she believes that excellence in local public health requires a global perspective.