Megha Ramaswamy, PhD, MPH
Megha Ramaswamy, PhD, MPH
Professor
University of Kansas School of Medicine
Dr. Ramaswamy serves as Professor of Population Health at University of Kansas School of Medicine. She has worked for the last 15 years studying how the intersection of urban living, race, class, and gender structure health and social risk for women and men involved in the criminal legal system. This work has been continuously supported by the National Institutes of Health (www.kumc.edu/she ).
Dr. Ramaswamy’s work has led to the development of behavioral and systems-level interventions that address the intersection of trauma, sexual health, and cancer prevention. She takes community health problems, works with women who are experts of their own lives, and comes up with plans for how best to implement solutions, take evidence-based practices to the field, and work with public health systems on collaboration, with an ultimate goal of having policy, practice, and human impact.
She currently leads a diverse research team with 20 faculty, staff, and students. She has mentored over 200 high school, undergraduate, graduate, nursing, medical students, and early stage faculty in her positions as co-director of an undergraduate public health program at Hunter College City University of New York, site-director of a master of public health program at University of Kansas School of Medicine, recipient of NIH diversity supplements to train faculty, mentorship of NIH K awards, and in her leadership role on the University of Kansas School of Medicine’s Science Education and Partnership Award.
In the community, Dr. Ramaswamy has served on the boards for a Kansas City domestic violence shelter and Planned Parenthood of Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. She serves the scientific community as grant reviewer for the National Institutes of Health community influences on health behaviors study section.
Dr. Ramaswamy has a PhD in Sociology from the City University of New York Graduate Center; a master's degree in public health from University of Kansas School of Medicine; and a BA in Journalism from New York University.