Joseph R. Betancourt is president of The Commonwealth Fund. An associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, he previously was senior vice president for equity and community health at Massachusetts General Hospital and founding director of the Disparities Solutions Center. Betancourt has provided guidance to agencies within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, private industry and at the state and local level. He has served on the boards of Trinity Health and the Massachusetts Health and Hospitals Association and on the Institute of Medicine committee that produced the seminal report, “Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Care.” Betancourt is the recipient of the Sumner M. Redstone Endowed Chair in Health Equity at MGH and, in 2024, was named one of Modern Healthcare’s “Top 100 Most Influential People in Health Care.” He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. (The Commonwealth Fund is a 2025 Festival Underwriter)
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