Lainie Rutkow became the university’s executive vice provost in January 2024. She is a professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. As executive vice provost, Dr. Rutkow oversees a broad portfolio. She is integrally involved in the creation of the Johns Hopkins School of Government and Policy, the university’s first new academic division since 2007.
From 2022 to 2023, Dr. Rutkow served as vice provost for interdisciplinary initiatives and led the strategic and academic planning for all aspects of the university’s expansion in Washington, DC, including development of the Hopkins Bloomberg Center. From 2019 to 2021, she served as senior advisor to the President of Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Rutkow developed and led the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, a global resource that featured Covid-19 data and expert guidance, viewed over 2.5 billion times.
Dr. Rutkow’s research concerns the use of law and policy as tools to protect and promote populationlevel health. She received a Ph.D. and M.P.H., in health policy, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law; and earned a BA in comparative literature and history of science and medicine from Yale University.
