Dr. Arthi Rao

Biography

Arthi Rao is the Associate Director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, where she leads educational program developments, particularly in Health Humanitarian Supply Chain Management. Her teaching integrates strategic development into the research portfolio of the Center, emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration. Prior to her role in ISyE, she served as Associate Director at the Center for Urban Resilience Analytics in the College of Design at Georgia Tech. Arthi has dedicated her research career to examining the social determinants of health, healthcare access, and the creation of healthy communities through the lens of Urban Planning and Epidemiology. She employs methodologies from Social and Landscape Epidemiology and Landscape Ecology, applying spatial methods to her work. In her teaching at both Georgia Tech and Emory University, Arthi conducts courses titled “Public Health and the Built Environment” and “Public Health Analytics.” Her research expertise includes spatial modeling, data visualization, and predictive modeling, focusing on the development of tools that investigate the impact of geography on health and well-being. Her efforts have received funding from federal agencies and state organizations to support public health initiatives.

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