Commonwealth Fund President Joseph R. Betancourt, M.D., has been elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), effective October 2023. Betancourt, one of the nation’s preeminent leaders in health care, equity, quality, and community health, became the Commonwealth Fund’s president in January.
Elected by his peers and colleagues, Betancourt is now part of an esteemed group of professionals at NAM making important contributions to the advancement of science and health equity and providing independent, authoritative advice nationally and globally. NAM, created as the Institute of Medicine in 1970, is one of three academies that make up the congressionally chartered National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Working across disciplines, NAM has shaped health research, practice, and policies to improve global health, and it continues to advance knowledge and accelerate progress in science, medicine, policy, and health equity.
