Core Faculty of the Primary Care Policy Center

Dr. Jonathan Weiner

Dr. Anne Riley

Dr. Kevin Frick

Barbara Starfield, a physician and health services researcher, is a University Distinguished Professor and Professor of Health Policy and Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University. She is internationally known for her work in primary care. Her books, Primary Care: Concept, Evaluation, and Policy, and Primary Care: Balancing Health Needs, Services, and Technology, are widely recognized as the seminal works in the field. She has been instrumental in leading projects to develop important methodological tools, including the Primary Care Assessment Tool, the CHIP tools (to assess adolescent and child health status), and the Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Groups (ACGs) for assessment of diagnosed morbidity burdens reflecting degrees of co-morbidity. She was the co-founder and first president of the International Society for Equity in Health, a scientific organization devoted to furthering knowledge about the determinants of inequity in health and ways to eliminate them. Her work thus focuses on quality of care, health status assessment, primary care evaluation, and equity in health. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine and has been on its governing council, as well as on the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, and many other government and professional committees and groups. She has a bachelor of arts from Swarthmore College, a medical degree from the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, and a master of public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Leiyu Shi is Professor of Health Policy and Health Services Research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management. He is co-director of the Johns Hopkins Primary Care Policy Center (PCPC). He received his doctoral education from University of California, Berkeley, majoring in health policy and services research. He also has a master's in business administration, focusing on finance. Dr. Shi’s research focuses on primary care, health disparities, and vulnerable populations. He has conducted extensive studies about the association between primary care and health outcomes, particularly on the role of primary care in mediating the adverse impact of income inequality on health outcomes. Dr. Shi is also well known for his extensive research on the nation’s vulnerable populations, in particular community health centers that serve vulnerable populations. He has focused on sustainability, provider recruitment and retention experiences, financial performance, experience under managed care, and quality of care. Dr. Shi is the author of seven textbooks and over 100 journal articles.