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Commonwealth Fund Names Joseph R. Betancourt, M.D., as Its Next President




December 12, 2022

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Joseph R. Betancourt, M.D., M.P.H., will become the Commonwealth Fund’s eighth president on January 17, 2023, succeeding David Blumenthal, M.D., who has served in the role since 2013. Betancourt, one of the nation’s preeminent leaders in health care, equity, quality, and community health, currently serves as the Senior Vice President for Equity and Community Health at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He will be among the first Latino heads of a national health care foundation.


“I cannot think of anyone better than Joe Betancourt to lead the Commonwealth Fund into the future,” said Michael Drake, M.D., President of the University of California and Chair of the Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors. “His breadth of experience as a physician, health system leader, and pioneer in disparities research gives him keen insight and a diverse toolkit for addressing the challenges U.S. health care will face in the coming years. His will be a critically important new perspective and voice in health care philanthropy.”


In his role at MGH, Betancourt oversees the organization’s diversity, equity, inclusion, and community health portfolio, including its Center for Diversity and Inclusion, Disparities Solutions Center, Center for Community Health Improvement, and centers focused on gun violence prevention, community health innovation, immigrant health, and global health. Previously, he led the Mass General Brigham system’s COVID Equity and Community Health response, served as Vice President and Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer at MGH, and directed its Disparities Solutions Center, which he founded. He is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a board-certified internist, whose practice has focused on Spanish-speaking and minority populations.


Betancourt 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.


“It is an honor and privilege to lead an organization that has meant so much to me personally and to so many Americans over more than a century,” said Betancourt. “Twenty-five years ago, the Commonwealth Fund propelled me into what has become an unimaginable journey in health care, and I am humbled beyond words to be given the opportunity to lead this critically important organization into the future, always remembering that our goal is to ensure access to high-quality, affordable health care for all.”


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