Avni Gupta

Avni Gupta, Ph.D., is a researcher for the Health Care Coverage and Access program at the Commonwealth Fund. As a health policy researcher, Gupta is primarily responsible for the Fund’s national surveys on health insurance and for publishing reports, issue briefs, blog posts, and journal articles on health insurance coverage, access, underinsurance, and health care reforms. Prior to joining the Fund, she was a research scientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, for nearly four years. There she led several research projects on insurance, access, quality of care, and health outcomes. Her clinical training is in dental surgery from India. Additionally, Gupta earned an M.P.H. in epidemiology and biostatistics from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in public health policy and management from New York University.