Biography

Dr. Ryan Richard Ruff, PhD, MPH, is an epidemiologist and education researcher interested in school health and child development. For the past fourteen years he has been a professor at New York University and has held additional appointments at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Columbia University Epidemiology & Population Health Institute. At NYU he is the PI of the PRISMS lab (Pragmatic Research for Innovative Sustainable Medicine in Schools), director of the Biostatistics Core, and director of the Master of Science program in Clinical Research. Dr. Ruff has received approximately $20MM in funding as Principal Investigator and his research has been published in leading journals including JAMA Pediatrics, JAMA Network Open, and the American Journal of Pathology. He is a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology.