Anand Habib, MD, MPhil

Dr. Anand Habib is an attending physician in hospital medicine and 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 an attending hospitalist at UCSF Parnassus, during which time he served as the Division of Hospital Medicine’s interim director of Social Medicine. He has previously worked as a global health fellow at a clinic in rural Haiti, collaborated with colleagues at Cambridge Health Alliance to pilot culturally informed cooking classes to support 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 embodied consequence of social inequalities and that health care is a human right. For him, medicine is a vehicle for pragmatic solidarity in the fight for health equity and social justice.

His scholarly 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. Relatedly, he is working with colleagues to understand how costs of care have been considered across medical specialties in clinical practice guidelines.

2) Investigating avenues through which hospital admissions can be used as opportunities to better manage patients' unmet health-related social needs.

3) In collaboration with Physicians for a National Health Plan, understanding the effect of financialization within health care on physicians' moral injury and structural disparities in patients' access to care.

4) Exploring issues of representation and equity within medical journals' editorial practices.