2025 Graduate Academy - Accepting Applications

Hopkins Business of Health Initiative
Graduate Academy 2024-2025
Accepting Applications

HBHI is now accepting applications for the 2024-25 cohort of its Graduate Academy program. The Graduate Academy is a highly selective opportunity for onsite, Masters-level Johns Hopkins students interested in becoming future practitioners in the business of health.
Through the content exposure and networking events offered by the program, the exceptional students will have unique opportunities for personal and professional growth. The program includes a $3,000 stipend. Applications are due on September 30, 2024.

The HOPKINS BUSINESS OF HEALTH INITIATIVE integrates the scholarship across Johns Hopkins University including the Carey Business School, Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Nursing, and School of Medicine around a shared vision of a healthier America, supported by an affordable and equitable, high-value health system. In pursuit of this vision our work focuses on the role of business and incentives through rigorous, objective, non-partisan, interdisciplinary research. Our Graduate Academy program seeks to advance HBHI’s mission to incubate, accelerate, and disseminate impactful, world-class, collaborative research across the divisions of Johns Hopkins University that aims to improve the productivity of the nation’s health system.

HBHI Strategic Pillars

Market competition and healthcare policy:

Competition among and between insurers, providers, and suppliers play a critical role in shaping prices, access, quality and equity and is affected by health policy. Our work seeks to understand how these complex interrelationships can best achieve an affordable and equitable, high-value health system.

Health delivery performance:

How can firms and workers that operate within the health sector deliver the most health for the costs they incur? We address this question through interdisciplinary teams that consider management, operations, marketing, workforce optimization and the role of policy and payment in shaping the incentives that reward value and performance.

Health of populations and health equity:

We focus on the role of business and incentives play to advance health of communities, addressing social determinants and inequity, public health, and healthy behavior.

Innovation – health technology and systems:

Healthcare markets, health organizations, and the health of populations can benefit from effective and cost-effective innovation. We focus on how health technology innovation and innovative systems of care can best advance the productivity of the nation’s health system.

ELIGIBILITY: The Graduate Academy is well-suited for onsite MPH, MHA, MBA, MSPH, MHS and dual-degree students interested in pursuing careers post-graduation in the healthcare sector, including health policy, consulting, health administration, strategy and operations, or life sciences. Part-time and full-time students are eligible.

PROGRAM COMPONENTS:
▪  Networking. Students will be invited to HBHI events and retreats where they can meet researchers across Johns Hopkins and at affiliate schools as well as alumni working in the field.
▪  Content exposure. Students will have the chance to join seminars like webinars, the work-in- progress series, and periodic symposia. Students can choose to participate in HBHI workgroups to learn more about interdisciplinary work.
▪  Explore opportunities for Research. Students may be assigned to support the activities of an HBHI initiative such as a pilot, a webinar, communication, or a workgroup.
▪  Mentor. Students will be assigned to a faculty member who will help the student navigate these opportunities. The aim is to find a match with a mentor whose work is of topical interest to the student. Selected students will work on HBHI-related activities an average of 5-10 hours per week from December 2024 through mid-May 2025.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
▪  Attending HBHI-promoted events.
▪  Meeting at least monthly with HBHI faculty mentor.
▪  Attending regular Graduate Academy meetings, which may include professional development, writing assignments, and event planning.
▪  Completing Graduate Academy team project.
▪  Supporting HBHI organization-wide projects and/or HBHI faculty research which could
involve project management, qualitative research, data management, and webinar development.

APPLICATION: Learn more and access the application by visiting our webpage. For further questions regarding the program and/or application, send us an e-mail

INFORMATIONAL SESSIONS: Please join us on Zoom on Sep. 10 or Sep. 19 at 7:00 PM EDT for informational sessions with recent Graduate Academy alumni, who will be answering interested students’ questions about the program and application process.
Register for the informational sessions through this link.