Varun Subramaniam

Varun focuses on applying data-wrangling techniques to issues of environmental health and is passionate about uncovering inequities in public health outcomes. He earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental health sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s degree in health data science, specializing in bioinformatics, from the George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health. Before joining EWG, Varun worked on quantifying disparities in urban-heat island effects and researched novel diagnostic biomarkers for cancer types. Varun grew up in Bangkok  and is a self-described street food and hot weather aficionado.