Her research interests include health economics, disability policy, labor economics, and social insurance programs. Her past work includes estimating the effect of the ACA Medicaid expansions on federal disability insurance applications, examining the relationship between rising health insurance costs and employee compensation, and analyzing the time use of people with disabilities. Her work has been published in journals such as Health Economics, Demography, and the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal. Before joining George Mason, Anand was a senior researcher at Mathematica Policy Research.