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The panel, moderated by Andrew Anderson, PhD, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University, included Andy Higgins, VP of Product Development at Clever Care; Sachin Jain, CEO of SCAN Group and SCAN Health Plan; Mark Meiselbach, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University; and Casey Schwarz, Senior Counsel for Federal Policy.

Speaker: Dr. Mark H. Dredze, PhD, is the Interim Deputy Director of the Data Science and AI Institute and the John C. Malone Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University

Learn about the recent HBHI retreat in Washington, D.C., bringing together new and established affiliates into research-focused collaboration.

Get to know Catherine Ettman, Ph.D., a member of HBHI’s core faculty and assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy & Management at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Her work explores the social and economic forces that shape population mental health and policies that can reduce mental health disparities.

The panel, moderated by Bruce Leff, MD, Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins, included Ali Khan, MD, MPP, FACP, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer – Aetna Medicare, Aetna/CVS Health Company; Eliza Pippa Shulman, DO, MPH, Chief Medical Officer at Medically Home; and Kristofer L. Smith, MD, MPP, Past-Chief Medical Officer at Optum at Home.

Dr. Charlotte J. Haug, MD, PhD, is the Executive Editor of NEJM AI and an International Correspondent for the New England Journal of Medicine.

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.

Featured speaker Dr. Nigam Shah from Stanford discussed the importance of aligning AI models with healthcare realities, particularly around capacity constraints and financial sustainability.

HBHI is now accepting applications for the 2024-25 cohort of its Graduate Academy program.

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.