John Lowrey
Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
Jun 25, 2025
11:00 am
Jun 25, 2025
11:00 am
In-person
Moretown
109
4 Thomas More St
London E1W 1YW, UK
London E1W 1YW, UK
The Roux Institute
Room
109
100 Fore Street
Portland, ME 04101
Portland, ME 04101
Network Science Institute
2nd floor
2nd floor
Network Science Institute
11th floor
11th floor
177 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Boston, MA 02115
Network Science Institute
2nd floor
2nd floor
Moretown
Room
109
58 St Katharine's Way
London E1W 1LP, UK
London E1W 1LP, UK
Talk recording
The prevalence and severity of non-communicable chronic conditions—such as obesity, hypertension, and diabetes—continue to rise. In the United States and other developed countries, a significant portion of healthcare spending is directed toward the ongoing management of these diseases, with chronic conditions accounting for approximately 90% of total healthcare expenditures in the US. Addressing issues like obesity is particularly complex due to the interplay between modifiable risk factors and disease progression. Moreover, an individual’s capacity to adopt healthier behaviors—such as dietary improvements and lifestyle changes—is deeply influenced by their social determinants of health (SDoH). In this paper, I review my prior work on SDoH, pediatric obesity, and healthcare partnership programs that connect the healthcare system with the emergency feeding network. I then explore the clinician’s role in managing chronic conditions and transition into my future research agenda. Drawing on concepts from the health sciences literature on EHR-phenotyping—which leverages multimodal electronic health record (EHR) data to inform diagnoses—I propose an analogous approach that integrates clinical and social data to uncover latent drivers of chronic disease.
About the speaker
John Lowrey is an Assistant Professor of Supply Chain & Information Management and Health Sciences at Northeastern University DMSB. His research spans interdisciplinary fields and concerns topics like food waste, food donations, retail operations, and preventative healthcare. He has worked with several of the largest Feeding America member Food Banks on food procurement and distribution-related projects and served on advisory boards related to sustainable business and food insecurity. His healthcare focus is related to chronic care models, clinic-community integration, and achieving population health at scale by operationalizing “screen-and-intervene” logic models.
His research has been published in top management, economics and public health journals, including Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Business Logistics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Preventing Chronic Disease, among others. His work is also commonly cited in the popular press and appears in outlets like Fast Company, The Conversation, Reuters and Boston Globe.
Lowrey received his Ph.D. in Operations Management at Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. Lowrey also holds a M.A.E., M.B.A., and M.S. from The Ohio State University. He received his Bachelor of Science from The University of Akron.
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