Ramya is a partner in McKinsey’s New York office, serving governments and health systems to improve outcomes for constituents and patients. Her work aims to reshape the fragmented healthcare and social services ecosystems—particularly for children and other vulnerable populations—through a combination of care model redesign, digital enablement, and payment innovation. Ramya is also an affiliate leader with the McKinsey Health Institute.
Examples of her recent client work include:
- helping a state health and human services agency redesign its approach to case management in the child welfare system, enabling multidisciplinary teams to accelerate delivery of wraparound services and supports (e.g., economic stabilization, behavioral healthcare) and improve team decision-making for frontline staff
- supporting a state agency to design and launch an innovative, statewide approach to expand school-based behavioral healthcare services for students
- collaborating with an academic medical center to develop its ten-year cancer care and innovation strategy
- working with a state aging agency on a holistic transformation to expand constituent access and choice, improve quality of care across nursing home and home-/community-based services, and drive investments in healthy aging and prevention
- partnering with a state government to design and launch a new cabinet-level department for children and youth, enabling service integration, data transparency, and continuity of care across infant vitality programs, early intervention and development programs, and child welfare services
Ramya began her career as a Teach For America corps member, teaching high school students with special needs in Philadelphia. Ramya holds degrees from Harvard and Stanford University, including a PhD in political science from Stanford.