Megan L. Ranney MD, MPH, FACEP was the deputy dean of the School of Public Health from 2022-2023. Her work focuses on the intersection between digital health, violence prevention, and population health.

She was the deputy dean of the School of Public Health, as well as the founding director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health. She is co-founder and senior strategic advisor to the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine (AFFIRM) at the Aspen Institute, which creates practical, scalable and immediate health-based solutions to reduce all forms of firearm-related injuries in the United States. She also served as president of the board for GetUsPPE.org, a startup dedicated to matching donated personal protective equipment to those who need it most. She is a fellow of the fifth class of the Aspen Health Innovators Fellowship Program and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

She graduated from Harvard University summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in History of Science in 1997. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cote d'Ivoire prior to attending medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in NYC. She graduated with AOA status and received the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine award from the Gold Humanism Society upon graduation. She completed internship, residency and chief residency in Emergency Medicine, as well as a fellowship in Injury Prevention Research and a Master of Public Health at Brown University.

She is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. She has previously served as an appointed member of HIMSS' mHealth Physician Taskforce, an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, and chair of the Firearm Injury Research Technical Advisory Group for the American College of Emergency Physicians. She has been PI or Co-I over a dozen federally funded grants, all focused on technology-based interventions for high risk populations.

Her work has been featured by hundreds of media outlets, including CNN, MSNBC, The BBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News.

Ranney departed Brown University to accept the position of inaugural Dean of the Yale University School of Public Health in July 2023.