Email ramanan@onehealthtrust.org

Laxminarayan is founder and director of the One Health Trust (formerly known as the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy or CDDEP) in Washington, D.C. and New Delhi, a senior research scholar at Princeton University, and director of the WHO Collaborating Center on Antimicrobial Resistance in New Delhi. He is an affiliate professor at the University of Washington, senior associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland.

Since 1995, Laxminarayan has worked to improve the understanding of antibiotic resistance as a problem of managing a shared global resource. His work encompasses extensive peer-reviewed research, public outreach, and direct engagement across Asia and Africa through the Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership. He has played a central role in bringing the issue of drug resistance to the attention of leaders and policymakers worldwide and to the United Nations General Assembly in September 2016.

During the Obama Administration, Laxminarayan served on the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology’s antimicrobial resistance working group and in 2015 was appointed a voting member of the U.S. Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antimicrobial Resistance where he served until 2023.

• NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health

• Antimicrobial resistance
• One Health
• Disease Control Priorities
• Value of Information

• Antimicrobial resistance
• One Health
• Disease Control Priorities
• Value of Information

• PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, Economics (1999)
• MPH, University of Washington, Seattle, Epidemiology (1999)
• BE, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India, Instrumentation (1992)

• Member, Council on Foreign Relations (since 2022)
• Fellow, Infectious Diseases Society of America (since 2021)
• Fellow, American Association for Advancement of Science (since 2020)
• Distinguished Alumnus Award, Department of Economics, University of Washington, 2020
• BP Koirala Memorial Oration Medal, BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, 2019
• Distinguished Alumnus Award, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, 2019
• Ella Pringle Medal, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 2018

• President, One Health Trust (formerly the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economic & Policy) (2009-present)
• Director, WHO Collaborating Center on Antimicrobial Resistance, New Delhi (2019-present)
• Senior Research Scholar, Princeton University (since 2014), Research Scholar (2011-14), Associate Research Scholar (2009-10), Visiting Scholar (2007-09)
• Affiliate Professor, University of Washington (2012-present)
• Vice-President, Research & Policy, Public Health Foundation of India (2011-2015)
• Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future, Washington DC (2006-2010), Fellow (1999-2005)

• World Health Organization (1999-present)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2002, 2005-06)
• Center for International Development, Harvard University (2000-01)
• World Bank (1997, 2004-present), Population Reference Bureau (2005-2007)
• University of Toronto (2006-present)
• United Nations Environment Programme (2010)

• Lewnard, J.A., A. Mahmud, T. Narayan, B. Wahl, T.S. Selvavinayagam, Chandra Mohan B., R. Laxminarayan, “All-cause mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Chennai, India: an observational study” Lancet Infectious Diseases, April; 22(4): 463-472 2022.
• Laxminarayan, R., Chandra Mohan B., T.G. Vinay, K.V. Arjun Kumar, B. Wahl, Lewnard, J.A., “SARS-CoV-2 infection and mortality during the first epidemic wave in Madurai, south India: a prospective, active surveillance study” Lancet Infectious Diseases, December; 21(12): 1665-1676, 2021.
• Herve, J., J.S. Mani, J. Behrman, A. Nandi, A. Lamkang, R. Laxminarayan, ”Gender gaps in Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills: Role of Wealth and Attitudes” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, December; 193: 66-97, 2021.
• Lewnard, J., N. Lo, N. Arinaminpathy, I. Frost, R. Laxminarayan, “Childhood vaccines and antibiotic consumption in low- and middle-income countries”, Nature, May; 581(7806):94-99, 2020.
• Laxminarayan, R., B. Wahl, S. R. Dudala, K. Gopal, C. Mohan, S. Neelima, K. S. J. Reddy, J. Radhakrishnan, J. A. Lewnard, “Epidemiology and transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in two Indian states”, Science, November 6;370 (6517):691-697, 2020.