John Cranmer currently serves as an Associate Professor at Emory University. Dr. Cranmer’s synergistic expertise in implementation science, global health and clinical care uniquely poise him to create contextually-specific and globally-relevant solutions to common causes of death in global health systems. His implementation approach to low birthweight (LBW) and maternal mortality position impacted communities as central partners in creating solutions. Dr. Cranmer is the scientific lead (PI) of Emory-Ethiopia, a 13-year not-for-profit clinical-academic-practice-policy partnership. Emory-Ethiopia has over 50 employees across three regions of Ethiopia and has overseen >$20 million in multinational- (WHO, Unicef, NI), Federal- and institutional-funding. He has assembled a transdisciplinary, multi-institutional team with complimentary technical expertise to halt preventable deaths for vulnerable Ethiopian newborns and mothers. Dr. Cranmer’s work focuses on high-impact, low cost health interventions that are collaboratively customized to locally contexts and needs. Simultaneously, his team applies implement rigorous scientific methods to generate transferrable evidence for other global health systems.

Dr. Cranmer received his DNP from the University of Washington, a MPH, MSN, and BSN from Johns Hopkins University, and a BA from Wheaton College.