Robin Herman is an Assistant Dean and Director of The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health. She also serves as Deputy Director of the Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development.
The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health is an exchange focused on health issues and controversies of current concern to decision-makers around the world.
Prior to her position with The Forum, Dean Herman directed communications for the School for 10 years, overseeing media outreach, crisis communications and general communications.
A former journalist, Herman reported for The Washington Post and The New York Times and is author of a history of science book, Fusion: The Search for Endless Energy (Cambridge University Press, 1990). In 1982 she wrote The New York Times’ first article on the nascent AIDS epidemic.
Robin. Herman is a graduate of Princeton University, AB 1973, where she was a member of the first class to include women. At Harvard School of Public Health she co- teaches ID284 The Media and Health Communication: Practical Skills with Jay A. Winsten, Director of the School’s Center for Health Communication. The course offers instruction in practical skills for future public health practitioners and advocates, such as writing news releases and opinion articles, handling a televised news conference, navigating adversarial interviews and mounting a public health campaign via mass media.
