Assistant Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Jose F. Figueroa, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Associate Physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), and a Burke Fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and his MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with a concentration in health policy. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at BWH, where he now works as an Internist and serves as the Director of the BWH Residency Management & Leadership Program. Recently, Dr. Figueroa was a member of the national planning committee of the National Academy of Medicine’s series titled Effective Care for High-Need Patients. He is also on the Advisory Board for the Institute of Healthcare Improvement Better Care Playbook and on the research advisory board of the Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety. His research interests focus on understanding how to improve care for complex, high-cost, and vulnerable populations. His work has been supported by several grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Commonwealth Fund, the Peterson Center on Healthcare, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.