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The Knowledge to Action and the Business of Health, affectionately known as KABOH, is one of the 9 Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship Clusters.  KABOH, with cluster leads Kathryn McDonald, Daniel Polsky, Kathleen Sutcliffe, and Valerie Suslow, described in detail HERE, is a priority HBHI initiative to recruit 4 new Bloomberg Distinguished Professors (BDP) and 4 junior faculty members to collaborate together along with HBHI core faculty and existing HBHI BDPs to address the pressing social need of achieving better health outcomes in light of ever-rising health spending.

So far, we have successfully recruited 2 new BDP faculty:

Melinda Buntin, PhD

Core Faculty

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Economics

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

Theodore "Jack" Iwashyna, MD, PhD

Core Faculty

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Department of Health Policy and Management

And they join HBHI BDPs:

Kathy McDonald, PhD, MM

Core Faculty

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Systems, Quality and Safety

Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Daniel Polsky, PhD

Core Faculty

Director, Hopkins Business of Health Initiative, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Economics and Business, Co-Director, Hopkins Economics of Alzheimer's Disease and Services Center

Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Kathleen Sutcliffe, PhD

Core Faculty

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Business and Medicine

Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality

And the junior faculty members recruited to Johns Hopkins as part of KABOH:

Andrew Anderson, PhD, MHA

Core Faculty

Assistant Professor

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Catherine Ettman, PhD

Core Faculty

Assistant Professor

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Nicholas Tilipman, PhD (Economics)

Core Faculty

Assistant Professor

Johns Hopkins Carey Business School