Anand Habib, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

I have previously served as a summer research intern with Partners in Health/Zanmi Lasante in Haiti, an Albert Schweitzer Fellow in community health in Boston, intern at the CMS Innovation Center, interim Director of Social Medicine within UCSF's Division of Hospital Medicine, and as a health policy research fellow at Yale School of Medicine. My research and advocacy focus on improving healthcare affordability (i.e., mitigating healthcare-related financial hardship like medical debt), Medicare policy, and designing systems of care that allow older individuals to age with dignity. I employ quantitative and qualitative research tools to investigate these topics and enjoy writing about them for both the general public and medical audiences.

My practice is grounded in the belief that health outcomes are the material manifestation of social inequalities and that health care is a human right. Medicine is therefore a vehicle for pragmatic solidarity in the fight for health equity and social justice.

In my spare time, I enjoy cooking Indian and Thai food, visiting National Parks (25 so far), reading books (100 since 2023), and collecting colorful tote bags.

• SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting: Advancing the Science of Social Care.
  Health services research 2025 Habib A, Pitafi S, Ratner E, Lindau ST, Gross C, Schulman-Green D
• Recommitting to Housing and Health Care Justice After City of Grants Pass v Johnson.
  American journal of public health 2025 Habib AR, Stella SA, Farkouh EK, Grenko CM, Hart D, Pasha AS
• Public Health Crisis in Gaza-Reply.
  JAMA 2024 Habib AR, Ijaz N
• Open Access: Opening or Closing Doors for Junior Faculty?
  Journal of general internal medicine 2024 Fuest S, Bello F, Habib AR, Cameron NA, Pasha AS
• Public Health Crisis in Gaza-The Responsibility of US-Based Academic Medical Journals.
  JAMA 2024 Ijaz N, Habib AR
• FDA Regulations of AI-Driven Clinical Decision Support Devices Fall Short.
  JAMA internal medicine 2023 Habib AR, Gross CP
• Statins for Primary Cardiovascular Disease Prevention: Time to Curb Our Enthusiasm.
  JAMA internal medicine 2022 Habib AR, Katz MH, Redberg RF
• Intravascular Microaxial Left Ventricular Assist Device for Acute Myocardial Infarction With Cardiogenic Shock-A Call for Evidence of Benefit.
  JAMA internal medicine 2022 Hu G, Habib AR, Redberg RF
• Predicting covid-19 outcomes.
  BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2022 Habib AR, Lo NC
• Parathyroidectomy in Elderly Individuals With Primary Hyperparathyroidism: To Operate or Not to Operate.
  JAMA internal medicine 2022 Habib AR, Katz MH
• Racial and Ethnic Differences in Age at Diabetes Diagnosis-A Call for Action.
  JAMA internal medicine 2021 Gopalan A, Habib AR, Grant RW
• Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Sexual Orientation of Editors at Leading Medical and Scientific Journals: A Cross-sectional Survey.
  JAMA internal medicine 2021 Salazar JW, Claytor JD, Habib AR, Guduguntla V, Redberg RF
• The Epic Sepsis Model Falls Short-The Importance of External Validation.
  JAMA internal medicine 2021 Habib AR, Lin AL, Grant RW
• An Inexpensive Intervention to Reduce e-Cigarette Use Among Young Adults.
  JAMA internal medicine 2021 Habib AR, Katz MH
• Recommendations From Breast Cancer Centers for Frequent Screening Mammography in Younger Women May Do More Harm Than Good.
  JAMA internal medicine 2021 Habib AR, Grady D, Redberg RF
• Prevalence and Tolerance of Prognostic Uncertainty Among Thoracic Oncologists.
  The oncologist 2021 Habib AR, Chen R, Magnavita ES, Jaung T, Awad MM, Odejide O, Abel GA
• Author Correction: Fit older adults with advanced myelodysplastic syndromes: who is most likely to benefit from transplant?
  Leukemia 2021 Abel GA, Kim HT, Hantel A, Steensma DP, Stone R, Habib A, Ho VT, Wadleigh M, El-Jawahri A, Alyea EP, DeAngelo DJ, Koreth J, Antin JH, Soiffer RJ, Cutler C
• Fit older adults with advanced myelodysplastic syndromes: who is most likely to benefit from transplant?
  Leukemia 2020 Abel GA, Kim HT, Hantel A, Steensma DP, Stone R, Habib A, Ho VT, Wadleigh M, El-Jawahri A, Alyea EP, DeAngelo DJ, Koreth J, Antin JH, Soiffer RJ, Cutler C
• How Do Blood Cancer Doctors Discuss Prognosis? Findings from a National Survey of Hematologic Oncologists.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2019 Habib AR, Cronin AM, Earle CC, Tulsky JA, Mack JW, Abel GA, Odejide OO
• Impact of lenalidomide use among non-transfusion dependent patients with myelodysplastic syndromes.
  American journal of hematology 2018 Brunner AM, Weng S, Cronin A, Fathi AT, Habib AR, Stone R, Graubert T, Steensma DP, Abel GA
• Treating Childhood Malnutrition in Rural Haiti: Program Outcomes and Obstacles.
  Annals of global health 2017 Cuneo CN, Dansereau E, Habib AR, Davies M, Ware S, Kornetsky K
• The sigma(E) stress response is required for stress-induced mutation and amplification in Escherichia coli.
  Molecular microbiology 2010 Gibson JL, Lombardo MJ, Thornton PC, Hu KH, Galhardo RS, Beadle B, Habib A, Magner DB, Frost LS, Herman C, Hastings PJ, Rosenberg SM