James Studnicki, Sc.D., MPH, MBA

Dr. James Studnicki’s 50-year academic career has encompassed appointments at the nation’s premier institutions for public health and health services research. He was most recently the Irwin Belk Endowed Chair in Health Services Research – granted in recognition of outstanding faculty – and Professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, College of Health and Human Services. He spent 13 years as a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, the top public health school in the country, where he was the first Director of the Master of Health Science (M.H.S.) Program in Health Finance and Management. Subsequently, he was Chairman, Department of Health Policy and Management, and Director, Center for Health Outcomes Research, at the University of South Florida Health Sciences Center. He has also been a senior hospital executive and president of a technology company which was started in a university incubator.

Dr. Studnicki’s research has focused on the use of large-scale databases, and associated information technology, in analyzing outcomes at the patient, hospital and community levels. He has contributed over 100 peer-reviewed articles to the health services research and public health systems and services research literatures. His publications have appeared in some of the most influential journals in public health, medical care and information technology/sciences, including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and the American Journal of Public Health.

He is a winner of the Article of the Year award given by the Public Health Systems Research (PHSR) interest group of Academy Health, a leading professional association for health services researchers. He also received the Dean’s Faculty Innovation Award at UNC Charlotte for his groundbreaking work building a data warehouse to enable county health departments to better assess the needs of their communities.

Dr. Studnicki holds both Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) and Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) degrees from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree from the George Washington University.