Ashvin Gandhi, PhD, is an affiliate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and an assistant professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He researches how health care providers interact with regulations such as price controls, spending limits, and quality incentive payments. Gandhi also studies how health care providers' finances and ownership may affect the quality of care that they provide to patients. 

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Gandhi studied the many factors affecting COVID-19 outbreaks at nursing homes, including facility quality, location, staffing, resident composition, vaccination coverage, and surveillance testing. Gandhi also studies obstacles to access in care, including geographic availability of care and provider discrimination. 

Gandhi earned a BA in mathematics and economics from Pomona College and a PhD in economics from Harvard University.