Isabel Ramos

Research assistant

Isabel Ramos is a public health researcher focused on using administrative data to assess status and improve outcomes for children and families. 
 
At Action Research, Isabel is part of court-appointed monitoring teams resulting from settlements of federal class action child welfare litigation. Her work includes analyzing state-level administrative data to verify quality and performance on settlement benchmarks and contributing to reports assessing system performance across core child welfare domains.  
 
Before joining Action Research, Isabel worked in federal and state public health research roles. Through a Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) fellowship, she prepared national- and state-level estimates of kindergarten vaccination and exemption rates using administrative data. At the California Department of Public Health, she contributed to injury and violence prevention research by producing data quality reports for a state-wide monitoring system, as well as reviewing reports for data accuracy and clarity for policy and practice audiences. 
 
She holds a Master of Public Health with a concentration in Epidemiology from the University of California, Davis, and bachelor’s degrees in Public Health and Microbiology from California State University, Chico.