Centralized networks of thought leadership
The Carey Business School faculty are engaged in interdisciplinary, applied research supporting the school’s research mission and identifying business solutions to some of society’s greatest challenges. Our centers and initiatives serve as centralized networks of thought leadership and resources for faculty, students, and the wider community.
Centers and initiatives also provide unique collaborative spaces for partnerships between industry, government, and academic programs. Together, we can build for what’s next®.
Center for Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence
The Center for Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence facilitates and accelerates the digital transformation of healthcare and wider application of unbiased and ethical AI for health in technical, analytical, behavioral, and economic aspects. CDHAI works in partnership with Johns Hopkins collaborators including the Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Medicine, and Whiting School of Engineering, as well as a wide network of external partners including entrepreneurs, large corporations, and federal and state agencies.

Center for Innovative Leadership
The Center for Innovative Leadership at the Carey Business School aims to advance knowledge and build capacity for innovative leadership in modern organizations. CIL is a hub for new ideas and insights on leadership, combining faculty-led research, student-facing programming, and community-focused impact.
Human Capital Development Lab
The Human Capital Development Lab takes a cross-disciplinary focus on key challenges facing human capital leaders around the world. As a development lab, the affiliated faculty strive to bridge the rigor of academic research with the pragmatic needs of business leaders, policymakers, and professional associations. To support this goal, the HCD Lab is actively engaged with external partners, including businesses, associations, and government agencies.
Gender & Work Initiative
The Gender & Work Initiative partners with scholars, leaders, and organizations to generate and disseminate evidence-based knowledge and practices to help create gender equitable workplaces. Affiliated faculty produce leading research focusing on the relational and structural factors contributing to gender inequality within organizations and labor markets.
Technology and Society Initiative
The Technology and Society Initiative strives to understand how business decisions, policy frameworks, and consumer behaviors interact to shape the impact of technology on our lives. Drawing on these frameworks, TSI aims to provide insights and solutions that promote a vibrant, ethical, and inclusive tech ecosystem. Its Washington, D.C. location offers an exciting environment in which to engage business and policy leaders with research and dialogue.
Hopkins Business of Health Initiative
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 of business and incentives through rigorous, objective, nonpartisan, interdisciplinary research.
About the Center for Health Systems and Policy Modeling
The Center of Health Systems and Policy Modeling aims to become a definitive source of information on the U.S. health sector, and the policy levers that could bring better outcomes at lower costs in the future. The center conducts research to address emerging issues in health to provide insights to the healthcare sector, businesses, and policymakers on how to shape healthcare delivery and outcomes and how policy and business decisions can alter them.