Tejas Venkat-ramani

Biography

Tejas is a social science researcher passionate about documenting the etiology of health disparities and finding policy solutions to address their upstream causes. She is a graduate student at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, currently pursuing her Masters in Health Policy and a certificate in Social Determinants of Health. In the past, she has worked on women’s health issues at the UN Foundation through their Girl Up Campaign and also worked as a researcher for the Columbus-based Moms2B program, where she focused on studying racial discrimination as a unique stressor that causes racial disparities in infant mortality. Most recently, she was a Policy Fellow at the Drug Policy Alliance and worked to address racial health disparities that arise as a result of failed drug policies and mass incarceration. She has a particular interest in harm reduction strategies and the unique toll women’s incarceration has on women and families. Tejas holds a BS in Public Health from the Ohio State University.

Research Interest

Advocacy