Laura Ruhl, MD, MPH

Indiana University

Laura Ruhl is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Indiana University (IU) School of Medicine, Director of Reciprocal Innovation at the IU Center for Global Health Equity and Co-Lead of the Population Health Initiative in Kenya for the Academic Model Providing Access to Care (AMPATH). She has broad training in public health, global health, and clinical medicine for both adults and children. She has spent nearly ten years living and working in Kenya with AMPATH where she has led several care and research programs in community-based maternal and child health, including a randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness of a community-based health education and peer support model for mothers and young children. As co-lead for the AMPATH Population Health program, she engages in understanding models to scale programs focused on community health, social determinants of health and health systems strengthening including access to quality care, supply chains, and health financing in partnership with public health systems. She is now leading the IU Center for Global Health Equity’s efforts in reciprocal innovation to use the model of community and academic partnership developed at AMPATH for research and care and apply and adapt it in Indiana.