PolicyLab

Aditi Vasan (she/her) is a faculty member at PolicyLab and an attending physician in the Division of General Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She also serves as faculty lead for PolicyLab's Health Equity Portfolio. Dr. Vasan’s research focuses on improving the health and social service systems serving low-income and minoritized children and families. Her current work is focused on implementing and evaluating social needs screening and support programs in health care settings, promoting user-centered design of government benefit programs to boost participation, and exploring the relationship between economic support programs and children's health and health care utilization.

Dr. Vasan received her BA in Molecular Biology and Global Health and Health Policy at Princeton University, her MD at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and her Master’s in Health Policy Research (MSHP) at the University of Pennsylvania, as a fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program. She completed her residency training in pediatrics at CHOP, where she served as chief resident.