About Us

Our aim is to integrate research, practice, and policy across Johns Hopkins University to advance knowledge to improve the productivity of the nation’s health system. HBHI is supported by the deans of the Johns Hopkins’ Carey School of Business, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the School of Nursing, and the School of Medicine with matching funds from the Presidential Fund.

How HBHI Focuses on the Business of Health

OUR WORK

Vision

A healthier America, supported by an affordable and equitable, high-value health system.

Mission

To incubate, accelerate, and disseminate impactful, world-class, collaborative research across the divisions of Johns Hopkins University that aims to improve the productivity of the nation’s health system.

Principles

Our work breaks down traditional academic silos by sustaining collaboration to promote thought leadership and applied research with impactful, scalable and sustainable solutions.

OUR WORK

The Business of Health

The business of health, as a distinct area of scholarly focus, is an integration of applied scholarship from the fields of economics, management, operations research, marketing, finance, health policy research and health services research with the practice of medicine, nursing, business, and public health.

HBHI aims to address the productivity challenges of
the nation’s health system through:

Collaborative, multidisciplinary research that applies business principles to address the nation’s health system challenges.
Testing and scaling novel approaches for firms and organizations to advance health and slow health spending growth.
Identifying cost-effective health interventions and the pathways to scale innovation through alignment of financial incentives.

What HBHI Does

Become an Affiliate

To be selected as core faculty or HBHI affiliate, you must be nominated by a current HBHI faculty member and unanimously approved by the HBHI affiliations committee. The committee seeks affiliates that maintain active research on the themes related to HBHI’s mission or in complementary research fields that can advance HBHI thematic research areas through active collaboration.

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HBHI Director

Core Faculty

Daniel Polsky, PhD

Daniel Polsky is the 40th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Economics at Johns Hopkins University. He holds joint appointments in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Carey Business School.

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