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The Rock Health founder joined HBHI director Dan Polsky with a builder's playbook for the people trying to improve American healthcare from the inside.

Graduate Academy Communications Committee

An HBHI workgroup that has met monthly on Zoom since January 2023 held its first in-person gathering on June 4, with ten faculty members presenting research on AI in clinical care and beyond.

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.

Alexander Capron, Gabriel Danovitch, Kimberly Krawiec, and Elaine Perlman debate whether paying kidney donors would save lives or unravel the system that makes donation possible.

More than 100 leaders from CMS, Congress, plans, providers, and academia spent the day working through one question: how should the relationship between Medicare Advantage payers and providers change to better serve patients, beneficiaries, and taxpayers? The program now enrolls 54% of Medicare beneficiaries and is absorbing the most significant payment recalibration in its 20-year history.

Featuring Dr. Serena Yeung-Levy, Stanford University

The HBHI Graduate Academy gives fellows a seat at the table for HBHI's D.C. convenings. Bonnie Koo and Kadamb Gupta share what they took from a December forum with Mark Cuban, Bill Gurley, and Patrick Conway.

Amy Finkelstein and Liran Einav argue that, for decades, the United States has patched together health insurance coverage rather than building a coherent system—and that this approach has left the country with coverage that remains fragmented, unstable, and incomplete.

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.