Subcommittee Member: Romana Hasnain-Wynia
Romana Hasnain-Wynia, Ph.D.
Chief Research Officer
Office of Research
Denver Health
Romana Hasnain-Wynia, Ph.D., is chief research officer at Denver Health, where she oversees research and sponsored programs through the Office of Research. She mentors junior and mid-career investigators at Denver Health and the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus.
Before joining Denver Health, Dr. Hasnain-Wynia served as the director of the Addressing Disparities program at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, where she provided strategic oversight and leadership for the program’s national funding priorities. She also served as the director of the Center for Health Care Equity and Associate Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and she spent a decade at the American Hospital Association’s Health Research and Educational Trust as vice president of Research. Her research focuses on advancing equity in healthcare with an emphasis on developing and integrating equity measurement in health systems and payment models.
She currently serves on the National Quality Forum’s Disparities Standing Committee and on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services committee to integrate equity measurement into payment and delivery models. She is chair of the board for the Colorado Health Institute. She also serves on the editorial boards of the journals Health Affairs and Health Services Research.
