Anand Habib, MD, MPhil

Anand Habib, MD MPhil is an attending physician in hospital medicine and currently a Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-2025) in the Yale National Clinician Scholars Program (formerly RWJF Clinical Scholars Program).

Originally from Houston, Anand studied Biology and International Security Studies at Stanford, explored medical anthropology at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, and earned his MD at Harvard. He subsequently completed internal medicine residency and worked as a clinical hospitalist at UCSF, during which time he served as the Division of Hospital Medicine’s interim director of Social Medicine. He has previously worked as a community health fellow at a clinic in rural Haiti, collaborated with colleagues at Cambridge Health Alliance to pilot culturally informed cooking classes as part of chronic disease management for elderly Haitian individuals, and spearheaded a national survey of thoracic oncologists to better understand how prognostic uncertainty affects prognostic discussions with patients who have advanced lung cancers.

His practice is grounded in the belief that health outcomes are the material manifestation of social inequalities and that health care is a human right. Medicine is therefore a vehicle for pragmatic solidarity in the fight for health equity and social justice.

His research interests include:

1) Interrogating the phenomena of medical debt and financially toxic out-of-pocket costs with the aim of understanding whether policies like out-of-pocket cost caps and subsidies mitigate against patients' subjective and objective financial hardship.

2) Investigating avenues through which hospital admissions can be used as opportunities to more systematically screen and refer patients to community-based resources to address unmet social needs.

3) Medical epistemology as viewed through the lens of medical journals - namely, improving the racial/ethnic and gender diversity of authors, peer reviewers, and editors and high-impact factor medical journals.