Full Name
Megan Ranney
Job Title
Dean
Company
Yale University School Of Public Health
Speaker Bio
Name: Megan L. Ranney, MD, MPH, FACEP
Pronunciation: MEH-gun RAN-ee (last name rhymes with Granny)
Title:
Dean, Yale School of Public Health
C.-E. A. Winslow Professor of Public Health
Professor of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Bio: Dr. Megan L. Ranney is an emergency physician, researcher, and leading advocate for innovative approaches to public health. She is the Dean of the Yale School of Public Health, the C.-E. A. Winslow Professor of Public Health, and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Yale University. Dr. Ranney is the first Dean to lead the school since its independence in 2024. Under her leadership, the school is pursuing a bold new strategic vision of linking science and society, making public health foundational to communities everywhere.
Dr. Ranney’s career has been driven by her front-row seat to preventable public health crises, from her formative years in the Peace Corps to her 20+ years as a practicing emergency medicine physician. Whether addressing motor vehicle injuries and firearm violence, HIV and COVID-19, or the importance of healthcare access, her first-hand experiences have fueled her commitment to high-quality science but also to making sure the science is used and understood by communities across the globe.
She has been a national leader in restarting the science of firearm injury prevention as a health issue after a 24-year pause in federal funding. Her work on violence prevention, the use of technology to augment prevention, and the role of systems-level change in enhancing care has been published over 200 times in journals such as NEJM, JAMA, and Nature. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, in recognition of her scientific impact.
In addition to her scholarly work, she has harnessed social media to spark large public health movements, such as securing and distributing over 17 million units of donated PPE for those who needed it most at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. She started two successful non-profits and serves as a board member on national and international organizations that work to use science to reduce firearm injury, improve science communication, and enhance emergency care, among other leadership roles. Dr. Ranney has also shaped bipartisan policy and public opinion. She has provided Congressional testimonies and other expertise to the U.S. Surgeon General and the White House across multiple presidential administrations. She is a sought-after media presence as well, with hundreds of national and international appearances that translate public health messages and science for the public.
Before her Deanship at Yale, Dr. Ranney was previously the Warren Alpert Endowed Professor of Emergency Medicine, Deputy Dean of the School of Public Health, and Founding Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health at Brown University.
Dr. Ranney earned her bachelor's degree in history of science, graduating summa cum laude from Harvard University; her medical doctorate, graduating Alpha Omega Alpha from Columbia University; and her master’s degree in public health from Brown University. She completed her residency in Emergency Medicine and a fellowship in Injury Prevention Research at Brown University.
Pronunciation: MEH-gun RAN-ee (last name rhymes with Granny)
Title:
Dean, Yale School of Public Health
C.-E. A. Winslow Professor of Public Health
Professor of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Bio: Dr. Megan L. Ranney is an emergency physician, researcher, and leading advocate for innovative approaches to public health. She is the Dean of the Yale School of Public Health, the C.-E. A. Winslow Professor of Public Health, and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Yale University. Dr. Ranney is the first Dean to lead the school since its independence in 2024. Under her leadership, the school is pursuing a bold new strategic vision of linking science and society, making public health foundational to communities everywhere.
Dr. Ranney’s career has been driven by her front-row seat to preventable public health crises, from her formative years in the Peace Corps to her 20+ years as a practicing emergency medicine physician. Whether addressing motor vehicle injuries and firearm violence, HIV and COVID-19, or the importance of healthcare access, her first-hand experiences have fueled her commitment to high-quality science but also to making sure the science is used and understood by communities across the globe.
She has been a national leader in restarting the science of firearm injury prevention as a health issue after a 24-year pause in federal funding. Her work on violence prevention, the use of technology to augment prevention, and the role of systems-level change in enhancing care has been published over 200 times in journals such as NEJM, JAMA, and Nature. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, in recognition of her scientific impact.
In addition to her scholarly work, she has harnessed social media to spark large public health movements, such as securing and distributing over 17 million units of donated PPE for those who needed it most at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. She started two successful non-profits and serves as a board member on national and international organizations that work to use science to reduce firearm injury, improve science communication, and enhance emergency care, among other leadership roles. Dr. Ranney has also shaped bipartisan policy and public opinion. She has provided Congressional testimonies and other expertise to the U.S. Surgeon General and the White House across multiple presidential administrations. She is a sought-after media presence as well, with hundreds of national and international appearances that translate public health messages and science for the public.
Before her Deanship at Yale, Dr. Ranney was previously the Warren Alpert Endowed Professor of Emergency Medicine, Deputy Dean of the School of Public Health, and Founding Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health at Brown University.
Dr. Ranney earned her bachelor's degree in history of science, graduating summa cum laude from Harvard University; her medical doctorate, graduating Alpha Omega Alpha from Columbia University; and her master’s degree in public health from Brown University. She completed her residency in Emergency Medicine and a fellowship in Injury Prevention Research at Brown University.
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