Ramya Kumar is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH). She is a researcher in Pillar 1: Translating Evidence to Policy and a member of the Decolonizing Global Health team.
Before joining UNU-IIGH, Ramya taught public health at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna, in northern Sri Lanka. Ramya holds a medical degree from the University of Peradeniya, an MSc in Global Health and Population from the Harvard School of Public Health, an MSc in Community Medicine from the University of Colombo and a PhD in Public Health Sciences from the University of Toronto.
Her current research interests include the politics of global health, access to healthcare, gender and health, and health inequalities. Ramya has authored several academic articles on global health politics, health policy and access to healthcare. She also writes regularly in the media to further her commitments to social medicine and justice in health.