Accolades

The Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards fund interdisciplinary teams that pair investigators from at least two parts of the university. This year's program drew 324 proposals and funded 40 projects. HBHI members are part of four of them. Congratulations to our members and their collaborators.

Jill Marsteller, PhD, MPP, has received the Fulbright-University of Birmingham Distinguished Scholar Award. This fall, she trades Baltimore for Birmingham, England, where she will spend six months on a question that unsettles health systems on both sides of the Atlantic: why are patients losing trust in the doctors and institutions meant to care for them?

Nine projects led or co-led by HBHI core faculty are among the 28 chosen for the 2026 Nexus Awards, Johns Hopkins University announced May 29. Eight of these HBHI awards are convening grants, funding the cross-disciplinary meetings the initiative was created to support.

HBHI leadership team member and core faculty Dr. Amit Jain has been appointed vice president of care transformation for the Johns Hopkins Health System, where he will lead systemwide efforts to improve the effectiveness, consistency, and affordability of care delivery.

Tinglong Dai and Daniel Polsky will examine how ambient AI documentation tools may affect coding intensity, spending, and quality outcomes.

The Nexus Award Program is a One University initiative supporting the growth of Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C. as a hub of robust debate and dialogue.

The Knowledge to Action and the Business of Health (KABOH) cluster addresses the pressing social need of achieving better health outcomes in light of ever-rising health spending.

Theodore “Jack” Iwashyna, ICU physician and Bloomberg distinguished professor at Johns Hopkins University, has been recognized on the 2025 STATUS List for his research and advocacy for racial equality in the function of life-saving medical devices.

A new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examines the current challenges in increasing the behavioral health care workforce capacity to better meet the needs of publicly insured populations and proposes strategies to address those challenges.

Several members of HBHI's core faculty have received new or continued funding in this round of awards.