Aditi Vasan

Aditi Vasan, MD, MSHP is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. She works as a Pediatric Hospitalist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), focusing on health equity and social determinants of health.

• Education: BA in Molecular Biology and Global Health (Princeton 2010), MD (Johns Hopkins 2015), MSHP in Health Policy Research (Penn 2021)

Her research addresses systemic barriers in healthcare access for low-income families, emphasizing administrative burden reduction in programs like WIC, SNAP, and Medicaid. Recent work evaluates social interventions for care coordination and the health impacts of policy changes.

Key findings from her publications include the role of neighborhood violence in acute care overuse, the benefits of continuous Medicaid eligibility during the pandemic, and the implementation challenges of community health worker programs. She advocates for evidence-based policy reforms in income tax credits and nutrition assistance.

• Scientific Affiliations: Research Fellow at CHOP's Center for Community Health Workers; Faculty Lead for PolicyLab's Health Equity Portfolio