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BBH Review gives students a platform to research, write, and publish thoughtful perspectives on the business, policy, and innovation shaping the future of healthcare.

Research Day 2026

Most recent projects.

Business Strategy

GLP-1 Market Dynamics: Supply as Strategy

This project explores how manufacturing capacity became a competitive weapon in the booming GLP-1 market. It examines how supply strategy, not just innovation, reshaped the race between industry leaders and determined who could actually meet unprecedented patient demand.

Research Day 2026

Health Tech

AI for Predicting Surgical Duration

This project evaluates how AI-driven prediction models can more accurately estimate surgical duration, a key driver of operating room efficiency. It highlights how better forecasting improves scheduling, reduces costly OR downtime, and streamlines hospital workflows for both staff and patients.

Research Day 2026 · Read the poster

Policy

Spending More, Achieving Less

This project analyzes why the U.S. healthcare system continues to underperform compared to peer nations despite spending significantly more per capita. It breaks down the structural drivers behind this paradox and what they reveal about the gap between healthcare spending and health outcomes.

Research Day 2026

Published articles

Recent publications.

Policy

The Monopoly of Insulin and EpiPen

By Nitya Jhamb & Smiraa Misra

Why do three insulin makers and a single EpiPen supplier get to set life-or-death prices? How patents and “evergreening” sustain pharma monopolies, and what reform could change.

Feb 2, 2025 · 7 min read

Biotech

Nurix Biotechnology: Targeted Protein Degradation

By Elizabeth Gagea & Emma Lee

Inside Nurix’s DELigase platform, and how targeted protein degradation aims to turn the cell’s own disposal system into a weapon against cancer.

Apr 25, 2024 · 2 min read

Policy

Medicare & the Prescription Drug Industry

By Jessica Wang

The Inflation Reduction Act lets Medicare negotiate drug prices for the first time. Who benefits, who’s suing to stop it, and how it could reshape pharma.

Apr 25, 2024 · 4 min read

Policy

Navigating the Road to Universal Healthcare

By Elysse Mendoza

As California opens Medi-Cal to more low-income adults, a look at the economics, politics, and equity questions behind the push for single-payer care.

Jan 27, 2024 · 4 min read

Careers

Intern for a Biotech Startup!

By Star Yu

Want startup experience? A roundup of open biotech and biopharma internships, from patient-research firms to AI-driven drug discovery.

Jan 27, 2024 · 2 min read

Innovation

Revolutionizing Medicine Through Xenotransplantation

By Tia Ketsan

Seventeen people die each day waiting for organs. Genetically modified pig hearts and kidneys could change that, if the science and public trust can catch up.

Jan 27, 2024 · 3 min read

Biotech

Targeting Aging

By Hassanali Bhimji, Marco Chamorro & Tina Su

From telomeres to senescent cells to Bryan Johnson’s $2M-a-year Blueprint, the science and business racing to slow, or reverse, human aging.

Apr 17, 2023 · 6 min read

Business

Mark Cuban Shakes Up Big Pharma with Cost Plus Drugs

By Isabela Ramirez & Armaan Salahuddin

Cost Plus Drugs cuts out pharmacy benefit managers to sell generics at a flat 15% markup. Can one disruptor actually reset how drugs are priced?

Apr 17, 2023 · 3 min read

Policy

The Nursing Shortage Crisis

By Aatmi Mehta & Star Yu

An aging population, retiring nurses, and strained schools are driving a national nursing shortage, with staffing, not pay, at the center of the fight.

Apr 17, 2023 · 2 min read

Innovation

The Current State of Telehealth

By Renga Rengappa

The pandemic made telehealth mainstream. Where care-from-home stands now on coverage, cross-state licensing, and the digital divide.

Apr 17, 2023 · 2 min read