Her lifelong interest in providing compassionate and high quality care to underserved communities motivates her work at the Eric B Chandler Health Center and through teaching medical students, pediatric and family medicine residents, as well as mentoring undergraduate students in public health. Dr. Ramachandran’s areas of interest include health disparities, community health, South Asian health, pediatric nutrition, literacy promotion, and developmental disabilities. She has been invited to speak in both professional and community settings on these areas and is currently engaged in NIH funded research on infant feeding practices in South Asian families.