Shreya Kangovi, MD, MSHP
Adjunct Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine)
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Founding Executive Director, Penn Center for Community Health Workers (CHW)
Investigator, Veterans Affairs Center for Health Equity Research & Promotion, University of Pennsylvania
Senior Fellow, Center for Public Health Initiatives, University of Pennsylvania
Department: Medicine
Contact information
University of Pennsylvania
1233 Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104
1233 Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-573-0295
Fax: 215-573-2742
Fax: 215-573-2742
Education:
BA (Biology)
Columbia University, 2001.
MD (Medicine and Scholarly Pursuit )
Harvard Medical School, 2006.
MSHP (Heath Policy Research)
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania , 2013.
Permanent linkBA (Biology)
Columbia University, 2001.
MD (Medicine and Scholarly Pursuit )
Harvard Medical School, 2006.
MSHP (Heath Policy Research)
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania , 2013.
Description of Other Expertise
Training of health professional students in socioeconomic determinants of health and community engagementDescription of Research Expertise
1) Perspectives of low-income patients on socioeconomic determinants of health and healthcare utilization2) Effectiveness of community health workers in modifying behavioral, socioeconomic and health system barriers that affect patient-centered outcomes.
Selected Publications
Knowles M, Vasan A, Pan Z, Long JA, Kangovi S. : Scaling an Evidence-Based Community Health Worker Program with Fidelity: Results and Lessons Learned. The Milbank Quarterly. 2025.Ibrahim-Aibo M, Kangovi S, Lion KC, Vasan A. : Community Health Workers: A Key Workforce to Promote Health Equity for Children in Immigrant Families. Academic Pediatrics. July 2024.
Gary E Weissman 1, Jasmine A Silvestri 2, Folasade Lapite 3, Isabelle S Mullen 4, Nicholas S Bishop 2, Tyler Kmiec 2, Amy Summer 2, Michael W Sims 5, Vivek N Ahya 5, Shreya Kangovi 6, Tamar A Klaiman 7, Julia E Szymczak 8, Joanna L Hart 9: A Qualitative Study Identifying the Potential Risk Mechanisms Leading to Hospitalization for Patients With Chronic Lung Disease. CHEST Pulm. May 2024.
Vasan A, Knowles M, Flerchinger S, Tandy TK, Mosen D, Soltesz J, Paradis O, Friedman N, Long JA, Ertz-Berger BL, Kangovi S. : Effects of a Standardized Community Health Worker Intervention on Health Care Utilization Within an Integrated Delivery System. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2024.
Knowles, M; Crowley, A.; Vasan,A; Kangovi, S.: A systematic review of the effectiveness of community health workers and their integration into health care Annual Reviews in Public Health 44:19.1–19.19. , April 2023.
Schriger, S.H., Knowles, M., Kangovi, S., Beidas, R.S. : Examining multi-level stakeholder perspectives of barriers and facilitators to implementing an evidence-based community health worker model. Presentation at 15th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation December 2022 Notes: Oral Presentation.
Whitehouse CR, Knowles M, Long JA., Mitra N, Volpp KG, Xu C, Sabini C, Gerald N, Estrada I, Jones D, Kangovi, S. : Digital Health and Community Health Worker Support for Diabetes Management: a Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of General Internal Medicine. May 2022 Notes: doi:10.1007/s11606-022-07639-6.
Knowles, M., Vasan, A., Daglieri, T., Carter, T., Beidas, R., Saldana, L., Long, J.A., Kangovi, S. : Scaling an Evidence-Based Community Health Worker (CHW) Intervention with Fidelity: National Implementation of IMPaCT AcademyHealth 2022 Annual Research Meeting, Washington D.C. May 2022 Notes: Oral presentation.
Aurora aguilar: Community health workers: the frontlines of justice. Modern Healthcare, The Check Up February 2022 Notes: https://www.modernhealthcare.com/providers/check-up-dr-shreya-kangovi-penn-medicine.
Ibe, C. Garfield, C., Harris, A. Scott, T., Kangovi, S. : Project CHAMPP: Advancing and Sustaining a Community Health Worker-Centered Political Platform. APHA Oral Presentaiton 2022.