Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Gerard F. Anderson is the national program director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-sponsored program “Partnership for Solutions: Better Lives for People with Chronic Conditions.” Dr. Anderson is a professor of health policy and management and international health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Hospital Finance and Management, and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Program for Medical Technology and Practice Assessment.

Dr. Anderson is currently conducting research on chronic conditions, comparative insurance systems in developing countries, medical education, hospital payment reform, and technology diffusion. Prior to his arrival at Johns Hopkins in 1983, Anderson held various positions in the Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he helped to develop Medicare prospective payment legislation. He has authored two books on health care payment policy, has published over 180 peer-reviewed articles, testified in Congress more than 25 times as an individual witness, and serves on multiple editorial committees.

Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Thomas Burke received his PhD in epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania, his MPH from the University of Texas, and his BS from Saint Peter's College. He is a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, with joint appointments in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and the School of Medicine Department of Oncology. He is also co-director of the Johns Hopkins Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute. His research interests include environmental epidemiology, the evaluation of community exposures to environmental pollutants, the assessment and communication of environmental risks, and the application of epidemiology and health risk assessment to public policy. He is a principal investigator for the Pew Environmental Health Commission, which is aimed at revitalizing the national infrastructure for environmental health. Dr. Burke is the chair of the Advisory Committee to the National Center for Environmental Health of the Centers for Disease Control. He is particularly interested in health and environment in cities.

Before his appointment at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Burke was deputy commissioner of health for the State of New Jersey. He has also served as assistant commissioner for occupational and environmental health at the New Jersey Department of Health, and as director of the Office of Science and Research in the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

Assistant Scientist
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Shannon Frattaroli is on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where she is affiliated with the Center for Injury Research and Policy. Her research interests include understanding the role of policy in improving the health of populations, with particular attention to the effects of injury and alcohol prevention policies, the implementation of public health policies, and the role of advocacy and communities in the policy and intervention processes. She uses both qualitative and quantitative approaches toward those ends. In addition, Dr. Frattaroli has advised several state and local organizations with regard to their policy agendas, and has testified on state and local public health bills.

Dr. Frattaroli received her masters and doctoral degrees from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she also completed a post-doctoral program in community-based participatory research.

Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Ellen MacKenzie is the chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she is also the director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy. As director, she oversees research that involves a spectrum of injury-related issues from prevention to long-term outcomes. Dr. MacKenzie’s own research continues to focus on the impact of health services and health policy on the short- and long-term consequences of traumatic injury. She has contributed to the development and evaluation of tools for reliably measuring both the severity and outcome of injury. These tools have been applied in several major research initiatives to evaluate the organization, financing, and performance of regionalized systems of trauma care. Of particular interest to her is the delineation of factors (both medical and non-medical) that explain variations in outcome. Her work has contributed to our knowledge of the economic and social impact of injuries and our understanding of the personal and environmental factors that influence recovery from injury, especially return to work.

Her recent research activities include a multi-institutional study to evaluate the long-term benefits and costs of surgical reconstruction versus amputation following limb-threatening injury. Currently, Dr. MacKenzie is developing an intervention to improve and support community re-entry and return to work of these populations. She is also collaborating with the Amputee Coalition of America on the development of a self-management program designed to address various issues after amputation. This project is an outcome of the Limb Loss Research and Statistics Program, which studies the incidence, impact, and outcomes of limb loss resulting from all etiologies (including trauma). Dr. MacKenzie is also working on a national study looking at the costs and effectiveness of trauma center care. This study is a collaborative effort involving investigators at Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, the American Trauma Society, and fourteen emergency medical services regions around the country.

Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Jonathan P. Weiner is Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and also holds a joint appointment at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. In addition, he is the deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Health Services Research and Development Center, where he acts as the principal investigator for many large research studies.

Dr. Weiner is an internationally known health services researcher, health policy analyst, and lecturer. His areas of expertise include managed care, primary care, case-mix and risk adjustment, and health workforce planning.

He has extensive consulting experience with a variety of state, local, federal, and foreign government units, including the health reform taskforce of both the Clinton and Bush administrations. He has also conferred with numerous HMOs, insurance companies, and private delivery organizations. Dr. Weiner is the co-developer of the Johns Hopkins University ACG Case-Mix System, which is widely used throughout the country and internationally to manage and finance the care of tens of millions of private and public health plan enrollees. He is co-author of the best-selling book, The New Medical Marketplace: The Physician’s Guide to the Health Care System in the 1990s.

Dr. Weiner holds a doctorate of public health (DrPH) in health services research from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. He also holds an MS in health administration from the University of Massachusetts and a BA in human biology from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1986 he received a fellowship to study primary care in Europe from the World Health Organization, and in 1989 he was a visiting policy fellow of the King’s Fund Institute of London.

PhD Candidate
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Bianca K. Frogner is a third year doctoral student in the Health Policy and Management Department at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is pursuing her degree in health economics. Her primary research interest is to better understand the difference in health spending between the U.S. and other industrialized countries. Using data from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Ms. Frogner has been working with Dr. Gerard Anderson on an annual series published in Health Affairs to explore reasons for this difference. Currently, she is working with Dr. Robert Moffitt of the Economics Department to look at the economic effects of welfare reform on children and families in the United States. Prior to entering Johns Hopkins, she worked as a research assistant with Dr. Rudolf Moos at the Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence at Stanford University and at the Palo Alto, Calif., Veterans Affairs Hospital. In college, Ms. Frogner got a firsthand look at the U.S. political system as an intern in Senator Edward Kennedy's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee office. She has a BA in molecular and cell biology from the University of California, Berkeley.

PhD Candidate
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Amanda Vogel is a third-year doctoral student in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Health and Public Policy Track. Her primary research interest is in race and class inequalities in HIV treatment and outcomes. She is also interested in the effects of neighborhood social and physical environment on health outcomes. Ms. Vogel is currently research assistant on a study of the experiences of Johns Hopkins Medical Institution faculty and staff conducting community-based participatory research in East Baltimore. Before coming to the School of Public Health, Ms. Vogel worked for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, where she founded and managed a health outreach program for older adults living in New York City public housing. She also worked at the New York Academy of Medicine and the Philadelphia Health Management Corporation, conducting research on HIV prevention and child abuse prevention. Ms. Vogel received her master’s degree in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health and her bachelor's degrees in sociology and English literature at Swarthmore College.

PhD Candidate
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

In May 2003 Joanna Zablotsky received her Master’s in Public Health from the Bloomberg School of Public Health with certificates in Environmental Health, Health Policy and Management, and the Risk Sciences. For the past two years she has served as the program coordinator for the Hopkins Center for Excellence in Community Environmental Health Practice, which is dedicated to enhancing environmental public health practice in Maryland. This fall she will return to Hopkins (the Health Policy and Management Department) to earn her PhD in Environmental and Occupational Health Policy.