Anoshua Chaudhuri

Dr. Chaudhuri is the Senior Director of the Center for Equity and Excellence in Teaching and Learning, a full professor and former department chair of the Economics department at San Francisco State University. She received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Washington, Seattle, and an M.A. in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics. Dr. Chaudhuri's research has been at the intersection of health, development, and family economics, evaluating the impacts of policies and programs on community and household health outcomes with a focus on children and the elderly. She has over 25 publications in peer-reviewed journals and books. She continues to collaborate with community agencies in participatory research projects and has received many engaged scholarship awards and high-impact teaching awards as she involves her students in these research projects. She has taught courses in Health Economics Research, Economics of Gender, and Microeconomics and has been a dedicated user of community service learning in her classroom. Dr. Chaudhuri's campus work has included promoting faculty diversity and student success. Dr. Chaudhuri serves on the Board of SF State's University Corporation as Board Chair and as an advisory board member of the non-profit mental health agency, Richmond Area Multi-Services or RAMS. She received the 2023-25 Lam Larsen Distinguished Service Professor award from the Lam Family College of Business for all her contributions to the campus and community, through her teaching, research, and service.

Education

• Ph.D. in Economics, University of Washington (2003)
• M.A. in Economics, Delhi School of Economics (1996)

Professional Associations

• American Economic Association
• Indian Health Economics and Policy Association
• POD Network

Select Publications

1. Chaudhuri, Anoshua, and Jennifer Trainor. "Three Laws for Curriculum Design in an AI Age." Inside Higher Ed (April 2025).
2. Chaudhuri, A., & Petkovic, D. (2025). Issues and Concerns About GenAI and How We Can Smartly Use It in Education. Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series, 5(1), 284-285.
3. A. Chaudhuri (2021), Health research in JFEI over a decade: 2009-2019, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Vol 42(Suppl 1):142-153.
4. Anoshua Chaudhuri, S. Mukherjee, and A. Barik (2020), "Do acute health care needs of the poor crowd out their chronic care utilization? Evidence from Rural India," Social Science Spectrum, Vol 6 No 2, pp 38-56.
5. Atoosa F. Craighead, Aaron B. Caughey, Anoshua Chaudhuri, Leah Yieh, Alyssa R. Hersh, Dmitry Dukhovny, (2020) "Are Probiotics a Cost-Effective Therapy for Prevention of NEC in VLBW Infants: Decision Analysis", Journal of Perinatology, Volume 40:1652–1661.

Select Grants and Contracts

1. CSU Adobe for all Grant, Writing for the Future: Using multimodal writing for majors, careers and communities, $26,000, April 2026, Co-PI.
2. CSU Innovation Grant, Investigating How Students Write With GenAI: Co-Creating Innovative Curricular Materials for Writing Courses, $50,000, April 2025, Co-Principal Investigator.
3. California Learning Lab AI Fast Challenge Grant, GenAI Preparedness for Teaching and Learning at SF State, $150,000, January 2025.
4. Equity-minded Pedagogy, Spring 2024, Lumina Foundation, Sub-award from CSU Chancellor's office, $24,760.
5. Equity-minded pedagogy, Fall 2023, ECMC Foundation, Sub-award from CSU Chancellor's Office, $30,000.
6. Data Informed Transformation of Teaching and Learning, Lumina Foundation, subaward from CSU Chancellor's Office, August 2023, $30,000.