Ramachandran co-directs the Yale Collaboration for Regulatory Rigor, Integrity, and Transparency (CRRIT), an interdisciplinary initiative aligning research on medical product evaluation, approval, and coverage with the goal of advancing policies that improve patient health and healthcare. She has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce and U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.
Previously, Ramachandran worked as research faculty as part of the Innovation + Design Enabling Access (IDEA) Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She trained in both medicine at the Alpert Medical School at Brown University and in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She completed her family medicine residency at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center and fellowship training at the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale University.