Dr. Roshan Bastani is a social/health psychologist whose main research interest is the study of access to health care among low-income, ethnic minority and other underserved groups, with a focus on testing the efficacy of patient and health care system directed interventions to improve access.

Bastani serves as co-director of the School of Public Health Center to Eliminate Health Disparities. Examples of her federally funded National Institutes of Health (NIH) research include: a randomized experiment targeting indigent minority women from two public hospitals in order to enhance utilization of appropriate follow-up diagnostic and treatment services for serious breast abnormalities; a group randomized trial to increase hepatitis B screening among Koreans; an experiment to assess the effects of an intervention to promote informed decision making regarding prostate cancer screening among Latinos; and a Centers for Disease Control (CDC)-funded prevention program to promote community-based collaborative intervention research projects to reduce ethnic disparities related to tobacco use, obesity and cancer screening. She is also the director of a National Cancer Institute (NCI) funded training grant that prepares post doctoral fellows to conduct interdisciplinary cancer prevention and control research.