Biography

Dr. Ryan Richard Ruff, PhD, MPH is an epidemiologist and education researcher interested in school-based health systems, the role of oral health on child development, and the implementation of pragmatic clinical trials in schools. He is an associate professor in the department of Epidemiology & Health Promotion at New York University. Dr. Ruff is currently a Principal Investigator of the CariedAway community-based participatory research network, the PI of the Building Adaptive School-based Interventions for Caries Study (BASICS), and leads the Pragmatic Research to Implement Sustainable Medicine in Schools (PRISMS) project. He is the director of the Laboratory for Research & Analysis in School Health and director of the Biostatistics Core, which supports additional collaborations in oncology, biomaterials, and molecular pathobiology.