897 - Interview With A Graduate: A Doctor of Health Policy Looks At AI and Health Insurance
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.8 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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About this episode:
It’s graduation time at the Bloomberg School! Doctoral candidate Jeff Marr joins the podcast to talk about how an economics major and an early internship at a health care system led to an interest in examining how health care markets and public policy work. Soon-to-be Dr. Marr discusses his dissertation looking at how predictive algorithms lead to decisions about care coverage.
Guest:
Jeffrey Marr is a healthcare economist and doctoral candidate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In July 2025, he will join Brown University as an Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice.
Host:
Dr. Josh Sharfstein is vice dean for public health practice and community engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a faculty member in health policy, a pediatrician, and former secretary of Maryland’s Health Department.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
| 0:16.2 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to Public Health Question at jh. |
| 0:21.6 | Jh.edu. |
| 0:23.6 | That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:29.6 | It's Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:33.6 | Graduation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is just a few days away, and today, in our annual tradition, Dr. Josh Sharfstein interviews a new graduate. |
| 0:43.8 | Jeff Marr, soon to be Dr. Jeff Marr, is a doctoral candidate in health policy and management. |
| 0:50.1 | He speaks with Dr. Sharfstein about his path to public health, his research on the use of algorithms and artificial intelligence by insurance companies, and what's next in his career. |
| 1:01.6 | Let's listen. |
| 1:02.7 | Jeff Marr, thank you so much for joining me today on Public Health on Call. |
| 1:06.5 | Congratulations on your upcoming graduation. |
| 1:09.1 | Thank you. |
| 1:10.5 | So I'd like to talk to you about first your road to public health. |
| 1:15.1 | Tell me a little bit about yourself. |
| 1:17.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.9 | So I guess I'll start with my first job in healthcare was when I was in college and I |
| 1:22.8 | worked for a safety net health care system in upstate New York. |
| 1:26.9 | This was when I was in college, a pretty |
| 1:29.5 | young person, and really got to see what it was like for a healthcare organization to think |
| 1:34.4 | about how do we improve quality, how do we expand access, and how do we innovate within |
| 1:40.8 | the constraints that's set out for us by our payers, whether that's Medicare, |
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