Explore Our Strategic Pillars
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 business and incentives through rigorous, objective, non-partisan, interdisciplinary research. 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 relates to 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.
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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? 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.
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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.
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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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