Randall Kramer

Randall Kramer is a Professor at Duke University, where he has been affiliated since 1988. His work bridges the economics of ecosystem services and global environmental health, with a focus on Madagascar, East Africa, and environmental justice in the U.S. He has held visiting positions at IUCN, Yale University, and the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry, and served as a consultant to the World Bank and WHO.

• Ph.D., University of California, Davis (1980)
• M.E., North Carolina State University (1976)
• A.B., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1975)

Kramer’s research explores how human land use affects biodiversity, infectious disease transmission, and human health. His projects include evaluating malaria control strategies, climate change impacts on vanilla farming in Madagascar, and septic system failures in Lowndes County, Alabama. He employs tools such as decision analysis, implementation science, and social network modeling.

His recent publications analyze climate change adaptation in Madagascar, market-driven crop diversification, and zoonotic disease pathways. These works highlight interdisciplinary trends in environmental economics, epidemiology, and conservation policy.

• Duke University's Scholar Teacher of the Year (2004)

Kramer has advised Master’s students, including Jennifer Cole, Jessica McDonald, and Xinyan Wen, whose work on energy efficiency marketing was published in Energy Efficiency. He collaborates with institutions like the Duke Global Health Institute and CITES, and leads research teams investigating social-ecological systems.