Joseph R. Betancourt, M.D., M.P.H., is the president of the Commonwealth Fund and a national leader in health care policy, equity, quality, and community health. He formerly served as the senior vice president for Equity and Community Health at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and founding director of the Disparities Solutions Center. He has devoted his career to improving the quality and value of health care for diverse populations. Betancourt has provided guidance to agencies within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, private industry, and at the state and local level. He served on Boston Board of Health, the Board of Trinity Health and serves on the Massachusetts Health and Hospitals Association. Betancourt is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a practicing primary care doctor. He has served on several Institute of Medicine committees, including the committee that produced the seminal report Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. Betancourt is an Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow and the Sumner M. Redstone Endowed Chair in Health Equity at MGH. In 2023, he was named one of Modern Healthcare's “Top 50 Clinical Healthcare Executives in the US” and elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine.