More than 80 affiliates of HBHI gathered last month for the 2024 Fall Retreat of the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative. It was held in the inspiring setting of the Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C. This diverse cohort was comprised of HBHI Core Faculty and HBHI Affiliate Trainees from the JHU School of Medicine, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Carey Business School, and the School of Nursing.
HBHI holds retreats twice a year to bring together its affiliates that extend across four campuses and two cities. This September's retreat combined elements of strategic planning, collaborative brainstorming, and research presentations, plus a welcome opportunity for community building among Hopkins peers with overlapping interests in the business of health.
In the morning, members shared feedback and generated new ideas for the next five years of HBHI. In the afternoon, retreat attendees broke into groups to generate potential concepts for interdisciplinary, cross-school research projects.
Over the course of the day, 10 new HBHI core faculty members also presented lightning talks, introducing their areas of research and collaboration interests.
Learn more about these new HBHI core faculty members below.
Assistant Scientist, Department of Health Policy and Management
Angela Liu, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Scientist in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research portfolio examines the impact of health policies on financial outcomes related to the US healthcare system, specifically on payment and spending in the Medicare and Medicare Advantage programs.
David Tan, PhD
Research Professor, Carey Business School
David Tan is a research professor of Management & Organization at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. His areas of research include the impact of business on public health, nonmarket strategy, labor markets, entrepreneurship, and technological innovation. David serves as a senior editor at Organization Science.
Debra Ravert, MD
Assistant Professor, School of Medicine
Dr. Ravert is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her current focus is on the development of an intersectional program within the Department of Emergency Medicine to identify evidence-based solutions to many of the access to care, equity, and sustainability issues facing emergency medicine and healthcare as a whole.
Kalahn Taylor-Clark, PhD, MPH
Faculty in Executive Education, Carey Business School
Kalahn Taylor-Clark, PhD, MPH is a faculty member in Executive Education at Carey Business School at The Johns Hopkins University. She serves as an executive advisor to a number of not-for-profit and for-profit organizations in the areas of social business innovation and investment, health equity and strategic planning.
Kathryn Linehan, MPH
Associate Scientist, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Kathryn Linehan is an Associate Scientist at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is an expert in Medicare payment policy, with a focus on post-acute care, and a trusted health policy researcher with over 25 years of experience. Throughout her career, Kathryn has conducted research with public and private-sector organizations dedicated to providing federal policymakers with timely, factual, unbiased analysis to inform coverage and health care payment policy. She joins the Center for Health Systems and Policy Modeling from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) where she was a Principal Policy Analyst.
Kurt Sweat, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Carey School of Business
Kurt Sweat is a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and is affiliated with the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative. His fields of research are market design, health economics, structural econometrics, and industrial organization. His research employs econometric models grounded in economic theory to study market design in healthcare settings. His recent research has focused on the design of the heart transplant waitlist in the United States.
Leila J. Mady, MD, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, School of Medicine
Leila Mady is a board-certified otolaryngologist–head and neck surgeon, whose practice focuses on patients with head and neck cancer. In addition to her clinical training, Dr. Mady completed a joint M.D./Ph.D./M.P.H. program in biomedical health sciences at Rutgers University, followed by serving as associate fellow at the Leonard David Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Mady is a funded population and health services researcher, who has led multidisciplinary and international teams with research interests in the side effects related to the cost of medical care, frailty, smell and taste changes related to cancer treatment and patient-reported and oncologic outcomes in head and neck cancer.
Michael Luca, PhD
Director, Technology and Society Initiative, Carey School of Business
Michael Luca is a professor and the director of the Technology and Society Initiative at the Johns Hopkins University, Carey Business School, and a faculty research fellow at the NBER. Professor Luca's research, teaching, and advisory work focuses on the design of online platforms, and on the ways in which data can inform managerial and policy decisions.
Nicholas Tilipman, PhD
Assistant Professor, Carey School of Business
Nicholas Tilipman is an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. His research focuses on the intersection of health care economics and industrial organization. In particular, Dr. Tilipman studies the effects of competition and regulation on the behavior of employers, insurers, and providers. His research has appeared in numerous academic journals, including general interest economics journals, field economics journals, and health policy journals. Prior to coming to Johns Hopkins, Dr. Tilipman was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Olga Yakusheva, MS, PhD
Professor, School of Nursing
Olga Yakusheva is an economist and a Professor of Nursing at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Furthermore, she holds the position of the Economics Editor for the International Journal of Nursing Studies). Dr. Yakusheva has an academic background in mathematics (BS) and economics (MS, PhD), specializing in economic theory and methods, and big data analytics. She completed post-doctoral training in health services research at the Yale Schools of Medicine and Public Health.