Explore Our Work
The Hopkins Business of Health Initiative is facilitating and spurring interdisciplinary research partnerships that will ensure Johns Hopkins University plays a leading role in transforming our national health system into the most productive and admired health system in the world. Explore our four strategic pillars below.
Economists and Epidemiologists Collaborate to Plan for Future Pandemics
Market Competition and Healthcare Policy
Competition among and between insurers, providers, and suppliers relate to prices, access, quality and equity and is affected by health care policy. Our work seeks to understand these interrelationships as drivers of the productivity of the nation’s health system.
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Health Delivery Performance
How can firms and workers that operate within the health sector deliver the most health for the costs they incur? This includes the study of management, operations, waste, and workforce optimization and the role of policy and payment in shaping the incentives that reward value and performance.
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Health of Populations and Health Equity
Modifiable determinants of health are largely social and behavioral. Thus, we focus on advancing the productivity of the nation’s health system through the health of communities, addressing social determinants and inequity, public health, and healthy behavior.
Innovation: Health Technology and Systems
Healthcare markets, health organizations, and 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.
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