Melinda B. Buntin

Melinda J.B. Buntin, Ph.D., is a health economist and a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. She also serves as director of the Center for Health Systems and Policy Modeling. Her body of work bridges health care policy and public health by advancing understanding of the U.S. health care delivery system and its costs, with an emphasis on improving the value of care. Buntin previously served as the Mike Curb Professor of Health Policy and founding chair of the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Prior to that, she was the Director of the Office of Economic Analysis, Evaluation, and Modeling at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and then Deputy Director of Health, Retirement and Long-Term Analysis at the Congressional Budget Office. Buntin earned a Ph.D. in health policy with a concentration in economics from Harvard University.