Board of Directors
Joseph Betancourt, MD, MPH
Joseph Betancourt, MD, MPH, is the President of the Commonwealth Fund. Previously, Dr. Betancourt was the Senior Vice President, Equity and Community Health at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also the founder, senior advisor and faculty of the Disparities Solutions Center (DSC) at Mass General, Faculty at the Mongan Institute, an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a practicing Internal Medicine physician. He has also served on the leadership team of the Mass General Center for Diversity and Inclusion. Dr. Betancourt is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in health policy, health care disparities, diversity, and cross-cultural medicine, and has served on several Institute of Medicine Committees, including those that produced the landmark reports, Unequal Treatment and Increasing Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce. Dr. Betancourt has secured grants and contracts that have led to over 60 peer-reviewed publications and advises private industry, government, and not-for-profit health systems on approaches to eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care. He sits on the Board of Trinity Health, a large national health system, and sat on the Boston Board of Health and the Board of Neighborhood Health Plan in Boston. He is a 2015 Aspen Institute Health Innovator Fellow.
Dr. Betancourt received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Maryland, his medical degree from Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Following residency, he completed The Commonwealth Fund-Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy and received his Master’s in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Kai Drekmeier, BA
Tawara D. Goode, MA
Anthony Iton, M.D., J.D., MPH
Gail Knight, MD, MMM
Laura Long
Rishi Manchanda, MD, MPH
Jeff Oxendine, MPH, MBA
Patrick Ramirez, MPH
Montrece Ransom, JD, MPH, PCC, BCC
Josephine Stacey, MA
Karen Stander, MBA (Treasurer)
Monica Valdes Lupi JD, MPH (Secretary)
Calvin Wheeler MD, BS Pharm, FAAP
Mike Williams, MBA (Vice Chair)
About Us
Our Board of Directors combined have over 150 years of experience and leadership in healthcare management, workforce development, and mentorship.