Usha Ranji is associate director for Women’s Health Policy at KFF. Her work addresses the impact of major health policy issues on women and girls, with an emphasis on insurance coverage, access to care, and low-income populations. In particular, her work seeks to explain the intersection of health care financing policies with several key issues in women’s health, including maternity care, intimate partner violence, and preventive services. She has worked on several national survey projects, including the KFF women’s health survey, survey of OBGYNs, and state surveys of Medicaid agencies on family planning and perinatal care benefits.

Prior to KFF, Ranji worked at the nonprofit Health and Medicine Policy Research Group on issues related to the federal welfare reform law and access to health care for people in Illinois.

Ranji currently serves on advisory committees to the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative and the California Breast Cancer Research Program. She has also been a member of the National Academies Committee on Essential Health Services for Intimate Partner Violence.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and a master’s in health policy and management from the Harvard School of Public Health.