Annapurna Ghosh, MPH, Managing Associate, has more than 15 years of experience as a public health researcher, evaluator, and strategic planner for a range of programs that focus on substance use disorder (SUD), HIV, and chronic diseases. She has expertise in facilitating strategic planning and the use of data with multi-sector coalitions, working across health departments to support coordination of care, and developing resources to promote best practices in patient centered care.
Annapurna’s work contributes to systems transformations that bring progress towards health equity. She has conducted evaluations with states and individual organizations; developed evaluation plans and tools; analyzed and interpreted data (quantitative, qualitative, and social network data); conducted cost-effectiveness analyses; provided technical assistance to increase coordinated care for behavioral health; and facilitated strategic planning with community coalitions using data. In addition, she has produced evaluation plans for local and national public health programs, provider guidance documents to increase respectful language for stigmatized conditions including HIV and substance use disorders, webinars on health equity, and rubrics to identify pathways and progress in implementing best practices related to the treatment of opioid use disorder. Annapurna has led projects sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state health departments. At Community Science, she continues to work on evaluation and other studies funded by these federal agencies and AmeriCorps as well as by philanthropic organizations such as de Beaumont Foundation and CareQuest Institute for Oral Health.
Annapurna holds a Master’s in Public Health in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Boston University.
Personally, Annapurna has been learning to knit, taking dance lessons, and practicing her tennis returns.
Examples of Publications
Duffy M, Ghosh A, Geltman A, Mahaniah GK, Higgins-Biddle M, Clark M. “Coordinating Systems of Care for HIV and Opioid Use Disorder: A Systematic Review of Enablers and Barriers to Integrated Service Access, and Systems and Tools Required for Implementation.” Medical Care Research and Review. October 2021. doi:10.1177/10775587211051182
Ghosh A. & McGovern M. (2016, October). Application of the Patient-Centered Medical Home/Neighborhood Framework to the Care of Persons with Opioid Use Disorders. Presented at Addiction Health Services Research Conference, Seattle, Washington.
Examples of Projects
Evaluation services for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health to understand participation in trainings on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS Standards).
Technical management and oversight to the review of grant applications submitted to AmeriCorps to determine the extent to which they meet standards for evidence-based programming and evaluation.
Learning and evaluation services for the four communities funded through de Beaumont Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Modernized Anti-Racist Data Ecosystems (MADE) for Health Justice initiative.