Ramya Kumar

Ramya Kumar completed her PhD in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington in 2024. She holds an MPH from the Boston University School of Public Health, where she was a Boston University Dr Martin Luther King Jr Scholar. Ramya joined the START team after living and working in Zambia for 6 years. She has experience in both field epidemiology and epidemiologic research. She worked at the Zambia Field Epidemiology Training Program, a collaboration of the Zambian Ministry of Health and US CDC. She has also worked on tuberculosis (TB) and HIV research projects, including a multi-national HIV prevention trial with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, operational research on TB service delivery with the USAID-funded Eradicate TB Project, and a national TB drug resistance survey. Her research interests include infectious disease, behavioral epidemiology, socio-economic/ethnic health disparities, and the political determinants of health.