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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?

HBHI and PERLHS brought researchers and the people who run Johns Hopkins hospitals together to ask how the system learns from its own patients, and what keeps it from learning faster.

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.