Lainie Rutkow serves as interim provost at Johns Hopkins University. 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 interim provost, Dr. Rutkow oversees ten schools as well as numerous interdisciplinary programs, academic centers, and support functions, and works closely with President Daniels to advance the ambitious goals of the Ten for One strategic plan.
In her nearly twenty-five years at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Rutkow has served as executive vice provost, vice provost for interdisciplinary initiatives, and senior advisor to the president for strategic initiatives. As executive vice provost she oversaw a broad portfolio that touched faculty affairs, student affairs, admissions and financial aid, student health and wellbeing, and institutional equity.
From 2019 to 2023, Dr. Rutkow led the strategic and academic planning for all aspects of the university’s expansion in Washington, DC, including development of the Hopkins Bloomberg Center. She was also integrally involved in establishing the School of Government and Policy, the university’s first new academic division since 2007. During the Covid-10 pandemic, Dr. Rutkow led the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, a global resource which was viewed more than 2.5 billion times and featured reliable Covid-19 data and expert guidance from every division of the university.
Dr. Rutkow is a nationally and internationally recognized public health law scholar whose work focuses on assessing how law influences public health outcomes. She holds a Ph.D. and M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; a J.D. from New York University School of Law; and a B.A. from Yale University in Comparative Literature and History of Science and Medicine.
