Brita Roy

Brita Roy, MD, MPH, MHS, is Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health, Section of Health Equity, and in the Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine. She is also Director of Community Health and Clinical Outcomes—Beyond Bridges, a transformative initiative to improve population health and well-being among a diverse immigrant community in Brooklyn, NY, through community-clinical partnerships.

Dr Roy co-developed the actionable Collective Well-being Theoretical Framework that adapts a positive health paradigm to the community level to improve population health. Her scholarly work tests this framework using epidemiologic methods to identify positive psychosocial factors that promote health and health equity; and applies community-based implementation science and systems science approaches to design and test strengths-based interventions to foster better health outcomes. She co-leads the Collective WELL Research Team, and previously co-led the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) 100 Million Healthier Lives measurement team and served as lead faculty for the IHI Pathways to Population Health Action Community. Additionally, Dr Roy enjoys caring for patients and teaching medical students and residents as an academic hospitalist.

Dr Roy received a Bachelors in Engineering from Vanderbilt University, followed by a Masters in Engineering from Wayne State University. She then completed a combined MD/MPH at the University of Michigan before completing residency and Chief Residency in internal medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr Roy was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at Yale University from 2013-2015.