Kalpana Ramiah
Daughter|| Sister|| Rosy’s Acca|| Public Health Professional|| Believer of Safety Net|| Vice President of Innovations, America\'s Essential Hospitals||Director, Essential Hospitals Institute
- Role
- Director, Essential Hospitals Institute at America's Essential Hospitals
- Location
- Washington, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kalpana Ramiah
Energetic executive with comprehensive accomplishments improving outcomes by leveraging advanced public health, nutrition, and business degrees to drive systems change to address the SDOH and inequities in healthcare delivery. Innovative and strategic thought leader and trusted partner proficient in developing strategies, consensus building, and deploying tactics for transforming healthcare. Two decades of experience working with and guiding philanthropy organizations. Passion for health policy research, climate change science, ESG, CSR, and DEI policies that boost healthcare equity and access for underserved populations. Converts program chaos to performance and complicated research into action items. Organized, creative problem-solver excelling at guiding diverse teams through breaking silos. Expertise managing $10M budget and advising executives and partners with contrarian, thought-provoking viewpoints. Proven national speaker on health equity, safety net hospitals, structural racism, and population health issues. Qualifications: • 22+ years leading healthcare transformation at America’s Essential Hospitals, American Institutes for Research, and more. • Advise the CEO, partners, and the board of directors on strategy, policy issues, program development, research, services, and tools as a senior leader. • Build and deploy strategy for research, education, tool development and distribution, and leadership to address health access, disparities, quality, safety, infrastructure, training, and community-based collaborations. • Chosen by CMS as a contractor for a 10-year,$25B contract for data-driven healthcare quality improvements. • Oversaw 35 concurrent health projects, mentoring researchers on protocol, process, best practices, and deliverables. • Certified Public Health Professional, National Board of Public Health Examiners (NBPHE) • Doctor of Public Health DrPH, Health Behavior, George Washington University
Experience
Director, Essential Hospitals Institute
Feb 2018 — Present · Washington, DC, US
Education
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University
Master of Science - MS, Nutrition Sciences
1999
The Wharton School
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General
The George Washington University- Milken Institute School of Public Health
Master of Public Health - MPH, Maternal and Child Health
2001
The George Washington University- Milken Institute School of Public Health
Doctor of Public Health, DrPH
2009
University of Madras
Bachelor of Science - BS, Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services
1996
Skills
- Public Health
- Reproductive Health
- Statistics
- Research
- Proposal Writing
- Community Health
- Policy
- Grant Writing
- Healthcare
- Policy Analysis
- Grants
- Health Policy
- Program Evaluation
- Global Health
- Data Analysis
- Data Collection
- Stata
- Program Development
- Spss
- Literature Reviews
- Epidemiology
- Program Management
- Health Education
- Qualitative Research
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