Our Faculty

Liz Fowler is a nationally recognized expert in federal health policy and Distinguished Scholar on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Carey Business School. Most recently, Liz was Deputy Administrator and Director of the Innovation Center at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In that role, she was responsible for advancing innovative payment and care delivery models in Medicare and Medicaid to promote value-based care on a national scale. These value-based payment models have provided an important testing ground and scaling opportunity for innovative start-ups and health care disrupters.

Prior to leading the Innovation Center, she was Executive Vice President of programs at The Commonwealth Fund and Vice President for Global Health Policy at Johnson & Johnson. In 2011-2012, she served as special assistant to President Obama on health care and economic policy at the National Economic Council to implement the Affordable Care Act (ACA). As Chief Health Counsel at the Senate Finance Committee, she played a major role in the drafting and passage of the ACA in 2010, and she also played a key role drafting the 2003 Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act (MMA). Liz has over 25 years of experience in health policy and health services research. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a law degree (JD) from the University of Minnesota. She is admitted to the bar in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Liz is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Aspen Health Innovators Fellowship and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022. 

Purva Rawal is a nationally recognized leader in value-based care with experience spanning the academic, government and private sectors. Most recently, she was the Chief Strategy Officer at the CMS Innovation Center. She played a key role in the conceptualization of a strategy that was grounded in accountability and whole, person-centered care, and oversaw its implementation across the Center. Prior to that, Dr. Rawal spent a decade in policy research and business strategy consulting on value-based payment and health system transformation. She was also an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University teaching classes on the Politics of Health Care and mentoring students. In 2016, she published The Affordable Care Act: Examining the Facts and has written for internationally recognized publications including the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, and Health Affairs. From 2005-2010, Dr. Rawal served as professional staff on the Senate Budget Committee during the Affordable Care Act and as an advisor to Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT). She started her career in DC as a Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Academies of Science, Medicine, and Engineering. Dr. Rawal received her B.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

Stacey Lee is an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School where she teaches Negotiations, Business Law, and Legal Foundations of Health Care. Lee draws on nearly twenty years of legal and arbitration experience, to create an interdisciplinary approach to negotiation and conflict management. She has created content specific negotiation courses and workshops for the Johns Hopkins Business of Medicine MBA program, the Kennedy Krieger Institute Leadership Development program, and the Carey Business School’s MBA Fellows program.

Prior to entering academia, Lee practiced law for over ten years.  She began as a securities litigator and later became in-house counsel for two of the country’s largest healthcare corporations. Lee also served as the senior regulatory specialist for America’s Health Insurance Plans, the United States’s largest national healthcare trade association.

Since joining the Carey faculty in 2008, Lee's research interests have focused on pharmaceutical manufacturers’ international and domestic influence on the access to medicines.  Her work has been published in the Yale Journal Health Policy Law & Ethics, Georgetown Journal of International Law, the Annals of Health Law Journal, and the Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy.  She was the Berman Institute Faculty Fellow in the Greenwall Fellowship in Bioethics and Health Policy from 2011 – 2012 and in 2012 the graduating Johns Hopkins MPH/MBA cohort awarded Lee the Teaching Excellence Award for her Negotiation and Business Law courses. Lee earned her law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law and a BBA in Management from Loyola University of Maryland.

Daniel Polsky is the 40th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Economics at Johns Hopkins University. He holds joint appointments in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Carey Business School. From 1996-2016 he was on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the Robert D. Eilers Professor the Wharton School and the Perelman School of Medicine. From 2012-2019 he served as executive director of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics. Dr. Polsky, a national leader in the field of health policy and economics, has dedicated his career to exploring how health care is organized, managed, financed, and delivered, especially for low-income people. His own research has advanced our understanding of the cost and quality tradeoff of interventions whether they are changes to large federal programs or local programs. His most recent work focuses on how to provide access to quality health care in low-resource settings with a particular interest in narrow provider networks.