Atheendar Venkataramani

Education

Ph.D., health policy, Yale University; M.D., Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Summary of Experience

Dr. Venkataramani is a health economist and practicing physician who studies the life-course origins of health and socioeconomic inequality, both domestically and internationally. His research focuses on understanding the relationship between economic opportunities and health behaviors and outcomes, examining the health consequences of social policies, and elucidating the effects of early life interventions on adult health and wellbeing. Dr. Venkataramani is a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics. He is also the founding director of the Opportunity for Health Lab. Dr. Venkataramani’s research has been published in journals such as JAMA, The New England Journal of Medicine, Social Science & Medicine, and the Journal of Health Economics, and covered by the media, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and NPR. Previously, he was an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and served on the faculty of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Dr. Venkataramani is a member of the American Society for Health Economists and the International Health Economics Association. In 2021, the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science awarded him the Milbank Quarterly Early Career Award in Population Health.