Victor Roy - Faculty Biosketch

Victor Roy, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Department: Family Medicine and Community Health

Contact information

3737 Market Street
9th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office: 2156628777

Education:
BA (Political Science)
Northwestern University, 2007.
MPhil (Modern Societies and Global Transformations (Sociology), with distinction)
University of Cambridge, 2010.
PhD (Sociology)
University of Cambridge, 2017.
MD (Doctor of Medicine)
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, 2019.
MHS (Masters in Health Services)
Yale University, 2024.

Post-Graduate Training
Family Medicine Resident, Boston University Medical Center, 2019-2022.
Post-doctoral fellow, VA Scholar, National Clinician Scholars Program: Yale University., 2022-2024.

Certifications
Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO), 2021.
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), 2023.
Basic Life Support (BLS), 2023.
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), 2023.

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Selected Publications

Roy V, Barsky BA, Fuse Brown EC, Suen LW. : When profit meets public health: Private equity in methadone treatment. International Journal of Drug Policy. 151: 105209, 2026.

Rose, M. R., Flexner, C., & Roy, V. : Subscription-Based Pricing for Lenacapavir—Learning From Hepatitis C and Cabotegravir. JAMA 2026.

Roy V, Amana V, Ross JS, Gross CP. : Shareholder Payouts Among Large Publicly Traded Health Care Companies. JAMA Internal Medicine. 02 2025.

Hunter BM, McCoy D, Cordilha AC, Roy, V, et al.: Private finance and the threat to global health. BMJ Glob Health 10(6), 6 2025.

Roy V, Buonora M, Simon C, Dooling B, Joudrey P.: Adoption of methadone take-home policy by state opioid treatment authorities during COVID-19. International Journal of Drug Policy 124(104302), Feb 2024 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104302.

J.D. Bruch, V. Roy, and C.M. Grogan: The Financialization of Health in the United States. The New England Journal of Medicine 390(2): 178-182, jan 2024 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmms2308188.

Roy V, Hamilton D, Chokshi DA. : Health and political economy: building a new common sense in the United States. Health Affairs Scholar 5(2), 4 2024.

Roy V, Ross JS, Ramachandran R. : A Public Option for Clinical Trials? Lessons from Convalescent Plasma. J Law Med Ethics. 52(1), 05 2024.

Victor Roy: Financing covid-19 mRNA vaccines. The BMJ 380: 413, march 2023 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p413.

Victor Roy: Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines. California: University of California Press. University of California Press, 2023 Notes: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.141.