Anne Beal, MD, MPH
Assistant Vice President for the Program on Quality of Care for Underserved Populations
The Commonwealth Fund

Anne Beal, M.D., M.P.H., is assistant vice president for the Program on Quality of Care for Underserved Populations. The goal of the program is to improve quality and reduce disparities in health care for low income and racial/ethnic minority patients by promoting quality improvement innovations and addressing barriers to quality improvement adoptions that would benefit the underserved. Dr. Beal is also the acting chair of the New York State Minority Health Council.

Prior to joining the Fund, Dr. Beal was a health services researcher at the Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital. In addition, she was associate director of the Multicultural Affairs Office, an attending pediatrician within the division of General Pediatrics, and an instructor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Beal's research interests include social influences on preventive health behaviors for minorities, racial disparities in health care, collection of race/ethnicity data, and quality of care. She serves on the advisory boards for many organizations, has been a reviewer for the Health Systems Research study section of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and was recently appointed as co-chair of the Healthcare Disparities Technical Advisory Panel for the National Quality Forum (NQF) Ambulatory Care Measures' Project.

She is also the author of The Black Parenting Book: Caring for Our Children in the First Five Years.1 Dr. Beal has been a pediatric commentator and medical correspondent for "The American Baby Show," "ABC News," and "NBC News." Dr. Beal holds a B.A. from Brown University, an M.D. from Cornell University Medical College, and an M.P.H. from Columbia University. She completed her internship, residency, and NRSA fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.