Biography

Dr. Ryan Richard Ruff, PhD, MPH, is an epidemiologist and education researcher studying school health and child development. He is an associate professor in the department of Epidemiology & Health Promotion at New York University with appointments at the College of Dentistry and the School of Global Public Health. Dr. Ruff is the Principal Investigator of the PRISMS lab (Pragmatic Research Implementing Sustainable Medicine in Schools), which currently includes the CariedAway research network, the BASICS trial of adaptive school-based preventive interventions, and the PROMISES effectiveness-implementation hybrid trial. He is also the director of the Biostatistics Core, supporting additional collaborations in oncology, biomaterials, and molecular pathobiology.