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The Hopkins Business of Health Initiative hosts “Conversations on the Business of Health,” a series of one-hour webinars that engage leaders of business and academia on the cutting edge of improving American health care. Moderated by faculty members and jointly hosted by the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Carey Business School, the School of Nursing, and the School of Medicine, the series is open to all.  Additional Co-Hosts have included the Center for Innovative Leadership, the Center for Mental Health and Addiction Policy, the HEADS Center, and the Digital Business Development Initiative. 

 

Upcoming Conversations
Friday, September 20, 2024 | Webinar

An expert panel featuring Dr. Ali Khan, Dr. Kris Smith and Dr. Pippa Shulman will explore what it will take to create and scale a home-based care ecosystem.

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Friday, October 18, 2024 | Webinar

Featuring expert panelists Andy Higgins, VP at Clever Care, Sachin Jain, MD., Mark Meiselbach, PhD, and Casey Schwarz, Senior Counsel

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Friday, November 15, 2024 | Webinar

In this webinar, we will explore the current state of Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) in the United States and address the ongoing debate surrounding them with our expert panelists.

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Friday, January 24, 2025 | Webinar

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Friday, February 21, 2025 | Webinar

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Friday, March 21, 2025 | Webinar

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Friday, May 16, 2025 | Webinar

Featuring Paul Billings, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Biological Dynamics; Jordan J. Green, Director, Biomaterials and Drug Delivery Laboratory and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University; Lilja Solnes, Associate Professor and Director of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Johns Hopkins University (TBC); John Steuart, Managing Director Steuart Ventures

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Past Conversations
HBHI and the Center for Health Systems and Policy Models (CHSPM) invited a panel of three guests to discuss this issue: Senator Richard Burr, Chair of DLA Piper’s health policy strategic consulting service; Michael Darden, PhD, academic program director for the Master of Science in healthcare management at the Carey School of Business; and Lauren Taylor, professor in the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. | Learn More...
HBHI convened an expert panel at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C. to discuss how the healthcare industry at large and providers at the grassroots level are working to bring about change. | Learn More...
Earth Day was the perfect occasion for the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative (HBHI) to host a first-of-its-kind conversation with HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra about addressing healthcare’s climate footprint in the context of environmental justice. | Learn More...
HBHI invited a panel of three guests to discuss this issue: Katey Bey, Global Head, Total Rewards, Sedgwick; Gregory Daniel, PhD, MPH, Vice President & Head of Global Public Policy, Eli Lilly and Company; and Shantanu Nundy, MD, EVP Care Delivery and Chief Health Officer, Accolade. | Learn More...
The American healthcare system, an intricate web of providers, insurers, patients, and employers, has failed to improve meaningfully, despite decades of medical discovery and technological advancement, but has also become increasingly expensive. Why? | Learn More...

Expert panelists: Jim Rebitzer, PhD, and Bob Rebitzer.

This was an enlightening discussion with the authors of "Why Not Better and Cheaper?" We explored the unique challenges of healthcare innovation in the US and discussed why there's a lack of incentives for cost-reducing innovations and the ease of profiting from low-value innovations.

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Expert Panelists: Fred Barrett, PhD, Melissa Lavasani, Lia Mix, LMFT. To understand the burgeoning business landscape surrounding this innovative therapy, the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative, in partnership with the Center for Mental Health and Addiction Policy, recently convened a panel of national experts to discuss the cutting-edge convergence of psychedelics, business, and policy.  

 

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Expert Panelists: Danielle Drory, JH, PhD, Stephanie Quinn, and Barak Richman, JD, PhD. Despite their prevalence, the issue of noncompete agreements stands at a watershed moment as state and federal policy take aim at their anticompetitive effects on worker mobility and wages, raising an urgent question: how might changes in the use of noncompete agreements hinder or improve the delivery of healthcare?

 

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Expert panelists: Avi Goldfarb, PhD, and Natalia Levina, PhD. For many years, there has been a collective excitement about using artificial intelligence in healthcare delivery. Still, AI technology is often talked about as if it is science fiction and the future of healthcare. Despite the FDA's approval of more than 500 medical AI systems by July 2022, many experts question if AI is a reality in the medical arena, or if it remains far in the future.

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