Rate My Professor Kerry Redican

Kerry Redican, MSPH, MPH, PhD, was Professor of Public Health in the Department of Population Health Sciences, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech. He earned his PhD from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Redican joined Virginia Tech in 1981 within the former College of Education, where he developed the community health education program and the Master of Science in Community Health, Virginia Tech's first public health-type degree. He contributed to the Master of Science in Health Promotion, delivered through pioneering distance learning methods including broadcast technology and online formats. In 2010, after nearly three decades in other roles, he transitioned to the College of Veterinary Medicine as director of the undergraduate public health program. Under his leadership, the Bachelor of Science in Public Health launched in fall 2018, attracting approximately 400 majors and 150 minors, and he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in public health topics.