Gurumurthy “Ram” Ramachandran is a professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering in and serves as its deputy chair. He is the director of the Johns Hopkins Education and Research Center for Occupational Safety and Health funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
He has conducted research in various areas relating to human exposure assessment in occupational, residential, and outdoor settings including the development of occupational exposure assessment strategies for airborne contaminants. He has conducted pioneering studies in occupational hygiene decision-making that synthesizes mathematical exposure models, monitoring data, and probabilistic expert judgment within a Bayesian framework.
He is co-leading the Exposome Collaborative of the Johns Hopkins University and has led or participated in multidisciplinary teams engaged in numerous community and occupational exposure assessments and epidemiological studies in the U.S., India, Canada, and Bangladesh. He collaborates with colleagues on epidemiological studies in Bangladesh relating to cookstove emissions, with toxicology colleagues on designing exposure chambers for animal studies, and colleagues in JHU’s School of Medicine on lung dosimetry modeling.
He has served as a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and advisory committees for the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). He is also serving on the editorial boards of the Annals of Work Exposures and Health, and the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene.
He has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and a master’s degree in environmental engineering and a PhD in environmental sciences and engineering from the University of North Carolina.