Sripriya Rajamani, MBBS, PhD, MPH

Dr. Sripriya Rajamani is an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. Her research interests are in public health informatics, the impact of information technology in public health practice and population health, adoption and use of standards and trying to measure and understand the impact of interoperability. Dr. Rajamani is also a practicing public health informatician with the Minnesota Department of Health and is involved with Minnesota e-Health initiatives.

PhD, University of Minnesota
Major: Health Informatics

MPH, University of Minnesota
Major: Public Health Administration and Policy

MBBS, Madras Medical University
Major: Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery

• Outstanding Graduate Advisor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing, 2025
• Presidential Priorities Award, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, 2024
• Best Poster Award, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, 2024
• Best Paper Award, American Medical Informatics Association Academic Forum, 2023
• Brothers Keepers Award for Community Engaged Research, Hue-MAN Partnership, 2021
• Fellow, American Medical Informatics Association, 2019

• American Medical Informatics Association
• American Nursing Informatics Association
• American Public Health Association
• Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
• Midwest Nursing Research Society

Rajamani, S. Leider, J. P., Gunashekar, D. R., & Dixon, B. E. (2025). Public health informatics specialists in state and local public health workforce: Insights from public health workforce interests and needs survey, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 32(4), 748–754, https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocaf019

Rajamani, S., Jiter, N., Leeds, M., Muscoplat, M., White, K., Bieringer, A., & Melton, G. B. (2024). Evolving interoperability across a state public health immunization registry and electronic health records. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 310, 23–27. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI230920 

Rajamani, S., Waterfield, K. C., Austin, R., Singletary, V., Odowa, Y., Miles-Richardson, S., Winters, T., Powers, B., LaRoche, F., Trachet, S., Fritz, J., Leider, J. P., Wurtz, R., & Shah, G. H. (2024). Training in public health informatics and technology leveraging a multi-institutional partnership model and emphasizing experiential learning. Applied Clinical Informatics, 15(4), 668–678. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0044-1787979 

Rajamani, S., Odowa, Y., Jantraporn, R., Austin, R. (2024). A population health informatics workshop for promoting team science between public health and nursing informatics and increasing conference participant diversity. Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 42(2), 89–93. https://doi.org/10.1097/CIN.0000000000001099 

Marquard, J., Austin, R., & Rajamani, S. (2024). Design of patient-facing immunization visualizations affects task performance: An experimental comparison of four electronic visualizations. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 31(11), 2429–2439. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocae125 

Rajamani, S., Chakoian, H., Bieringer, A., Lintelmann, A., Sanders, J., Ostadkar, R., Saupe, A., Grilli, G., White, K., Solarz, S., Melton, G. B. (2023). Development and implementation of an interoperability tool across state public health agency’s disease surveillance and immunization information systems. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Open, 6(3), ooad055. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamiaopen/ooad055 

Austin, R. R., Rajamani, S., Jantraporn, R., Pirsch, A., & Martin, K. S. (2023). Examining standardized consumer-generated social determinants of health and resilience data supported by Omaha System terminology. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 30(11), 1852–1857. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocad143 

Rajamani, S., Kayser, A., Ruprecht, A., Cassman, J., Polzer, M., Homan, T., Reid, A., Hanson, M., Emerson, E., Dahlberg Schmit, A., & Solarz, S. (2022). Electronic case reporting (eCR) of COVID-19 to public health: Implementation perspectives from the Minnesota Department of Health. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association: JAMIA, 29(11), 1958–1966. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocac133 

Austin, R., Rajamani, S., Jones, R. C., Robinson, K., & Eder, M. (2022). A community-based participatory intervention in the United States using data to shift the community narrative from deficits to strengths. American Journal of Public Health, 112(S3), S275–S278. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.306852 

Bright, T., Williams, K., Rajamani, S., Tiase, V., Senathirajah, H. C., & McCoy, A. (2021). Making the case for workforce diversity in biomedical informatics to help achieve equity-centered Care: A look at the AMIA First Look Program. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 29(1), 171–175. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocab246 

Rajamani, S., Karras, B. T., Tenenbaum, J. D., Schmit, A. D., & Dixon, B. E. "Partnerships to Promote Public Health Informatics Capacity to Support the Data Modernization Initiative (DMI) in Public Health," American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, San Francisco, CA. (November 2024).

Rajamani, S., Odowa, Y., & Wurtz, R. "Capacity Building in Public Health Informatics and Technology: The TRaining in Informatics for Underrepresented Minorities in Public Health (TRIUMPH) Consortium," Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA. (June 2024).

Solarz, S., Kayser, A., Cassman, J., Lintelmann, A., Shoakena, B., Bediako, S., Rajamani, S., & Brueske, C. "Aligning Agency-Wide Data Modernization Strategy and Electronic Case Reporting for All Public Health Reportable Conditions: Perspectives from the Minnesota Department of Health. Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA. (June 2024). [CSTE Presidential Priorities Award]

Rajamani, S., Richwine, C., Austin, R., Martin, C., & Marquard, J. "One Size Does Not Fit All: Perspectives on Patient Portals, Whole-Person Health and Co-design for Increasing Consumer Engagement in Health. American Medical Informatics Association Clinical Informatics Conference, Minneapolis, MN. (May 2024).

Rajamani, S., Odowa, Y., Jantaporn, R., & Austin, R. "Building Pathways for Diversification, Recruitment, and Training in Nursing Informatics: Using a Population Health Informatics Workshop as a Strategy," American Nursing Informatics Association Conference, Chicago, IL. (May 2024).

Joshi, M., Rajamani, S., & Austin, R. "Informatics Strategy and Nurse Leadership for Change Management at Direct Care and Treatment within Minnesota Department of Human Services," American Nursing Informatics Association Conference, Chicago, IL. (May 2024).

Odowa, Y., Wurtz, R., & Rajamani, S. "Population Health Informatics and Technology (PHIT) Training to Meet Public Health Needs," American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. (November 2023).

Kayser, A., Rajamani, S., Cassman, J., Schmit, A., & Solarz, S. "Timeboxing to Address Volume of Data in Electronic Case Reporting (eCR): Perspectives of the Minnesota Department of Health from a National Pilot Participation. Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT. (June 2023).

Austin, R., Rajamani, S., Jantraporn, R., & Monsen, K. A. "An App-aided Approach to Collecting and Examining Patient-generated Social Determinants of Health Data," American Nursing Informatics Association Conference, Louisville, KY. (May 2023).

Odowa, Y., Shah, G., Rahman, S., Rajamani, S., & Wurtz, R. "Academic-Practice Partnership to Build and Diversify the Public Health Informatics Workforce," American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. (November 2022).

Award: Data-driven Evaluation of Case Information from Public Health Electronic Reports (DECIPHER)
Principal Investigator: Rajamani, Sripriya
Sponsoring Organization: University of Minnesota Data Science Institute
Award Dates: 2024 - 2025

Award: Examining Whole-Person Health and Resilience of Aging Women in the United States and Turkey
Principal Investigator: Austin, Robin
Sponsoring Organization: Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health/Center for Women’s Health Research and Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility
Award Dates: 2023 - 2025

Award: Training in Informatics for Underrepresented Minority Students in PH Consortium (TRIUMPH)
Principal Investigator: Wurtz, Rebecca
Sponsoring Organization: U. S. Dept. of Health & Human Serv Office of the National Coord. for Health
Award Dates: 2021 - 2026

Award: Advancing Population and Public health Reporting and Outcomes with Vaccination data Exchange (APPROVE)
Principal Investigator: Rajamani, Sripriya
Sponsoring Organization: U.S. Dept of Health & Human Serv AHRQ
Award Dates: 2021 - 2023

Award: Health Informatics and Electronic Laboratory Reporting Support
Principal Investigator: Rajamani, Sripriya
Sponsoring Organization: U.S. Dept of Health & Human Serv, Minnesota Department of Health
Award Dates: 2018 - 2023

Award: Leveraging the EHR to Collect and Analyze Social, Behavioral & Family Factors
Principal Investigator: Melton-Meaux, Genevieve B
Sponsoring Organization: NIH National Library of Medicine
Award Dates: 2015 - 2017