Business of health
At Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, our university's foundation in medicine combines with a fresh perspective on what a graduate business school should be. You'll find our faculty in not only prestigious economics, management, and finance journals, but also the most prominent health journals. Together, this is the power to shape the most common—and the most pressing—needs of our world.
- Alumni
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- Liz Cherot (MBA ’16) was named president and CEO of the March of Dimes.
- Anthony Watters (MBA ’22) was named one of P&Q’s Most Disruptive Startups for his health tech app to help underserved individuals with chronic conditions improve health and wellness.
- Abe Abraham, MD (MBA ’15) and Shashi Shankar (MBA ’20) launched Novellia, a digitomics company that speeds research and seeks to bring all aspects of a patient’s health journey into one platform.
- Mehaque Kohli (MBA ’23), now with Abbott Vascular, was a Poets and Quants MBA to Watch
- Kristi Ebong (MBA/MPH) is an early-stage VC expert and partner at HealthX, a venture capital funder for businesses looking to reduce wasteful spending in health care delivery.
- Faculty and research
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- Ritu Agarwal joined Carey Business School as the first Wm. Polk Carey Distinguished Professor.
- Ritu Agarwal and Guodong (Gordon) Gao established the Center for Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence or CDHAI, a center that conducts cutting-edge research at the intersection of digital technologies, analytics, AI, and health care.
- Melinda Buntin joined Carey Business School as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor with a joint appointment at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and leads a newly established Center for Health Systems and Policy Modeling.
- Dan Polsky directs the Hopkins Business of Health Institute, which added Jack Iwashyna to its team, finished its second year of its graduate institute, and helped fund several studies including one on the influence of negative diagnoses on the choice of generic vs. brand-name medications. (Hermosilla, M. and A. Ching)
- Chris Myers studies the growing role of CMOs.
- Tinglong Dai and Haiyang Yang study purposeful design for AI-augmented health care.
- Students
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- Evan Haas (MBA ’24) is CEO of Curve Assure and won Carey’s Student Venture Showcase.
- The Innovations for Substance Use Disorders program, in partnership with the National Institutes of Health’s Institute on Drug Abuse, helps highly accomplished researchers scale ideas into marketable SUD solutions.
- A full-time MBA student group created the concept of a “smart tampon” to detect cervical cancer while minimizing out-of-pocket patient expense and inequitable access to care and attracted potential investors to prototype
- A team of MBA/MPH students won the first BioNJ Health Equity in Clinical Trials MBA Business Plan Case Competition.
- A team of students worked with a School of Nursing PhD candidate to develop end-of-life care that is more sensitive to Native Americans’ spiritual needs and traditions
Carey at a Glance
Since 2007, Carey Business School has been building on its foundations and the legacy of Johns Hopkins University with focus, determination, and accomplishment. Here are just a few of our distinctions.