Joseph Betancourt

Joseph R. Betancourt is the president of the Commonwealth Fund. One of the nation’s preeminent leaders in health care policy, equity, quality, and community health, Dr. Betancourt formerly served as the senior vice president for Equity and Community Health at Massachusetts General Hospital, and as founding director of the Disparities Solutions Center. He has devoted his career to improving the quality and value of health care for diverse populations.

Dr. Betancourt is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a board-certified internist, providing primary care to a large Spanish-speaking and minority patient panel. He earned his M.D. from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and completed an internal medicine residency at New York Hospital–Cornell Medical Center. Following his residency, he was a member of one of the first classes in the Commonwealth Fund–Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy, where he earned an M.P.H. in health policy and management from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

An author of nearly 80 peer-reviewed articles, Dr. Betancourt has served on several Institute of Medicine committees. He is an Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow and recipient of the Sumner M. Redstone Endowed Chair in Health Equity at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has also been named one of Modern Healthcare's “Top 25 Diversity Leaders,” and one of the “Top 50 Clinical Healthcare Executives in the United States.”