Biography

Dr. Ryan Richard Ruff, PhD, MPH is an associate professor in the department of Epidemiology & Health Promotion at the New York University College of Dentistry and an associated professor at the NYU School of Global Public Health. His research leverages epidemiology, education research, and implementation science to study school-based preventive medicine and its effect on child development. Dr. Ruff is one of the Principal Investigators of the CariedAway school-based oral health research network, the contact PI of the Pragmatic Research to Implement Sustainable Medicine in Schools (PRISMS) project, and the director of the Laboratory for Research & Analysis in School Health (RASH Labs). He is a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and a member of the American Statistical Association and the American Educational Research Association.