Ruchita Balasubramanian is a current MPhil Student in the Department of Veterinary Medicine. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Molecular Biology from Princeton University. Her thesis work was conducted in the Department of Physics, where she attempted to elucidate the dynamics of key regulatory genes responsible for fruit fly development through a live-imaging system. She has worked with institutions including the International Vaccine Institute conducting projects on a dengue fever outbreak in Burkina Faso, and helped to implement Japanese encephalitis vaccination campaigns in Indonesia. In 2018, she received the Princeton University Global Health Department’s Health Scholars Fellowship to conduct a project mapping antimicrobial resistance across India with the Institute of Integrative Biology at ETH Zurich and the Center for Disease Dynamics and Economic Policy. In 2019, she received a Fulbright Fellowship to assess the effectiveness of hospital sewage as a point of surveillance for clinical AMR in India.
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Balasubramanian R, Schnure M, Forster R, Hanage WP, Batey DS, Althoff KN, Gebo KA, Dowdy DW, Shah M, Kasaie P, Fojo AT. (2026). The Potential Effect of Ending CDC Funding for HIV Tests: A Modeling Study in 18 States. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Moallef S, Balasubramanian R, Krieger N, Tabb LP, Chen JT, Hanage WP, Bassett MT, Cowger TL. (2025). Advancing health equity in wastewater-based epidemiology: A global critical review and conceptual framework. SSM - population health, (30)
Dankwa EA, Cavalli L, Balasubramanian R, Can MH, Cui H, Jia KM, Li Y, Ofori SK, Swartwood NA, Wade CG, Buckee CO, Imai-Eaton JW, Menzies NA. (2025). Calibration of transmission-dynamic infectious disease models: A scoping review and reporting framework. PLoS computational biology, 21(11)
Krieger N, Moallef S, Cowger TL, Chen JT, Balasubramanian R, McGregor AJ, Tabb LP, Hanage WP, Bassett MT. (2025). Political determinants of US states' screening-amenable cancer stage at diagnosis and premature cancer mortality. JNCI cancer spectrum, 9(5)
Krieger N, Moallef S, Chen JT, Balasubramanian R, Cowger TL, Hamad R, McGregor AJ, Hanage WP, Tabb LP, Bassett MT. (2024). Politicians, power, and the people's health: US elections and state health outcomes, 2012-2024. Health affairs scholar, 2(12)
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