Shabbar Ranapurwala
Shabbar I. Ranapurwala, PhD, MPH, BHMS, is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Epidemiology in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), core faculty member of the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center, and an adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Iowa. Trained as a physician in India, and as an epidemiologist in the United States, Shabbar has been conducting injury and violence prevention research for more than a decade. He currently leads three NIH and CDC funded R01s and one large grant from the DoJ, that use Big Data to generate real world evidence for preventing drug overdoses, suicide deaths, firearm violence, and intimate partner violence, and to achieve health equity throughout these issues. Shabbar teaches core epidemiology methods and intervention epidemiology classes at UNC. He is an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR). He was the inaugural co-chair of SAVIR’s Antiracism Interest Group and led the way in publishing recommendations for the use of race and ethnicity in epidemiologic research.
