Inside Healthcare: From Systems to Solutions

Explore how health connects to daily life and how systems shape care. In this expert-led mini course, Johns Hopkins professor K. Davina Frick, PhD, and guest experts will share experiences from their real work in the healthcare field and answer your questions. Students in this course will examine the physical, mental, and social aspects of health, and examine key parts of the healthcare system—such as providers, hospitals, medications, devices, and insurance—to learn how they work. You and your classmates will discuss how daily choices influence health outcomes and how health affects our lives. Throughout the course, students will explore sustaining and disruptive innovation using examples from culture and healthcare. You will learn approaches to encourage the adoption of positive health behaviors, promote the utilization of available services (particularly prevention), and facilitate the use of remote patient monitoring systems. Then you will brainstorm what factors must be addressed and propose an effective solution to share with classmates and receive and provide feedback on your projects.

Faculty Biography
K. Davina Frick, PhD, is a professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School with joint appointments in the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the School of Medicine. She has a long-standing affiliation with the Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research. Dr. Frick teaches courses focused on business leadership and human values and frameworks for analyzing healthcare markets. Much of her research has been on cost-effectiveness and burden of disease. She is an advocate against inequity and believes business can play a role in and produce value by reducing inequity.