Healthcare Initiative
Integrating business and medical points of view on the complex challenges facing the healthcare sector.
The Healthcare Initiative at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business serves as a center of gravity for the diverse disciplines that engage in healthcare research at Booth, and facilitates collaboration with partners across the university.
Through rigorous research and interdisciplinary collaboration between faculty members, policymakers, industry leaders, alumni, and current students, we bring analytical and humanistic approaches to bear to make a positive impact on the healthcare industry.
Co-Directors of the Healthcare Initiative
Our Faculty in This Area
Eric Budish
Steven G. Rothmeier Professor of Economics and Centel Foundation/Robert P. Reuss Faculty Scholar
Veronika Rockova
Associate Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, and James S. Kemper Foundation Faculty Scholar
Research from the Booth Community
States Could Save Lives by Sharing Ventilators with Each Other
Research from Dan Adelman suggests sharing ventilators between states could help make up a portion of any shortfall in availability amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Can Regulation Rein in Algorithmic Bias?
Sendhil Mullainathan discusses his paper documenting how an algorithm used by health-care organizations generated racially biased results.
Hospital Ratings are Deeply Flawed. Can They be Fixed?
The most influential rating system rests on some faulty calculations, affecting millions of people and billions of dollars, according to Dan Adelman.
Healthcare Analytics Laboratory
The Healthcare Analytics Laboratory is an MBA lab course at Booth in which students learn how to apply quantitative analytical tools to improve the delivery of healthcare. At the end of each course, MBA students present their findings to executives who work at sponsoring firms.
Healthcare-Related Courses at Booth
At Booth, we believe in a multidisciplinary approach to a business education. Our MBA students are educated in the fundamentals of business: accounting, economics, psychology, sociology, and statistics.
Among the many MBA courses at Booth exist a number of classes in which students learn the ins and outs of the healthcare industry and prepare themselves for career in the healthcare industry. These classes include:
- Life Sciences: Innovation and Finance
- Healthcare Data Analytics
- Healthcare Analytics Lab
- Global Health and Social Policy
- Commercializing Innovation: Tools to Research and Analyze Private Enterprises
- New Venture Strategy
- Building the New Venture
- Social Enterprise Lab
- Managing Service Operations