Rachel Ram, MPH, serves as a Program Manager on the Social Drivers of Health (SDOH) team at the National Association of Community Health Centers. In this role, she supports community health centers across the country in collecting and using SDOH data to strengthen partnerships, drive upstream solutions, and advance health equity.
Rachel brings a multidisciplinary background spanning nonprofit program management, Medicaid finance consulting, health education, and community-based research. She most recently worked at Sellers Dorsey, supporting initiatives to strengthen the Medicaid workforce and programs through innovative funding strategies. Prior to that, she contributed to chronic disease prevention and implementation research at the University of North Carolina and led tobacco cessation, asthma and lung cancer programs at the American Lung Association.
She holds a Master of Public Health in Health Policy from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and a Bachelor of Science in Health Education and Behavior from the University of Florida.