Ramanan Laxminarayan

At-a-Glance

President at One Health Trust since 2009 and Senior Research Scholar at Princeton University since 2008.
Founder of One Health Trust (formerly CDDEP) and Founder & Board Chair at HealthCube since 2016.
Key architect of the Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria (AMFm), an innovative financing mechanism for antimalarial drugs.
Played a central role in bringing drug resistance to the attention of leaders and policymakers worldwide, including the United Nations General Assembly in 2016.
Served on President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology’s antimicrobial resistance working group.
Served as a voting member of the U.S. Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antimicrobial Resistance from 2015 to 2023.
Holds a PhD in Economics and a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Epidemiology.

Biography

Ramanan Laxminarayan is an economist and epidemiologist, known for his work in public health and infectious diseases. He serves as President of the One Health Trust, an organization he founded, formerly known as the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP). Since 2008, he has also been a Senior Research Scholar at Princeton University. Additionally, he founded HealthCube in 2016, where he serves as Board Chair.