Ranjani Paradise (she/her) is the Director of Evaluation at the Institute for Community Health. She leads the development of ICH’s evaluation services and is project director for mixed methods research and evaluation projects across a range of topic areas, with a focus on behavioral health and substance use. Her portfolio also includes projects related to health equity, language access, workforce development, health systems advocacy and transformation, and social determinants of health. Ranjani’s current work primarily focuses on substance use disorder treatment, harm reduction, and recovery support programs, and she has extensive experience working with community health centers and other community-based healthcare providers.

Ranjani holds a BSE from Princeton University and a PhD from MIT. She is a member of the American Evaluation Association and is an Instructor in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Ranjani lives in Newton, MA, with her husband and two children.