Kalpana Ramiah

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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