Ramnath Subbaraman, MD, MSc
HIGH IRI Fellow | Tufts University School of Medicine
Ramnath Subbaraman, MD, MSc, FACP is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine and an attending physician in the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center. He is an infectious diseases physician and epidemiologist who conducts implementation science research aimed at understanding and addressing gaps in the tuberculosis (TB) care cascade in India. Specifically, his research has focused on assessing quality of TB care, understanding reasons for pretreatment loss to follow-up, and evaluating the accuracy and acceptability of TB digital adherence technologies. Along with colleagues at the Southeast Asia Office of the Union Against TB, he has been leading TB STAMP, a care cascade cohort study and TB geospatial mapping project in five districts in two of India’s poorest states. He also conducts community-based participatory research on social and environmental determinants of health in urban slums in Mumbai, India, in collaboration with PUKAR, an innovative urban research collective.