Heritage Foundation Leadership for America

Dr. Ashok Roy is a Health Policy Fellow at The Heritage Foundation's Center for Health Policy Studies.

Before joining Heritage in November 2007, Ashok (pronounced UH-shok) Roy was a fellow at the Massachusetts Commonwealth Connector Insurance Authority. While there, he was directly engaged in the design and execution of the Massachusetts health insurance "connector" – the novel health insurance market exchange developed by Heritage Research Fellow Edmund Haislmaier.

Roy's academic background combines medicine, business and public policy. He received his medical degree from the University of Southern California in 2001, where he previously earned a bachelor's degree with honors in political science in 1996. In pursuing his medical career, he was an associate physician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Medical Center, an internal medicine resident at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York, and a general surgery intern at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C.  

He also received his master's in public health from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2005, and his master's in business administration from MIT in 2007.

Roy is fluent in Spanish and Hindi.