Victor Roy

About Victor Roy

Victor Roy MD, PhD is a family physician and sociologist working to achieve health equity through scholarship, education, and solidarity-based change efforts. He is currently Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Pennsylvania and directs the Health and Political Economy Project, a field catalyst initiative building a more just and inclusive economy for health and dignity. 

His research focuses on economic systems that shape health for structurally marginalized patients. His book, Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines (University of California Press, 2023), centered on the political economy of drug pricing and access to medicines via the case of curative treatments for hepatitis C. 

He completed residency training in family medicine at Boston University, serving clinically at Boston Medical Center and Codman Square Health Center. Alongside his medical degree from Northwestern University as a Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellow, he earned a doctorate in sociology from the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge scholar and post-doctoral training in health services research from Yale National Clinician Scholars Program. Previously, he co-founded and served as Executive Director of GlobeMed, a network of students on university campuses partnering with communities around the world to tackle poverty and health inequity. 

He is the grandson of a physician and a village health worker from rural West Bengal, India.