Alan Lyles ScD, MPH

Alan Lyles is a professor in both the College of Public Affairs' School of Health and Human Services and School of Public and International Affairs. He is also a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. From 2003-13, he served as the Henry A. Rosenberg Professor of Public, Private and Nonprofit Partnerships at the University of Baltimore, and was recently appointed the Henry A. Rosenberg Professor of Government, Business and Nonprofit Partnerships, 2020-2023.

Lyles' professional interests focus on pharmaceutical economics and health policy—particularly on (i) policies and practices to improve access to high-cost, innovative medicines such as those for hepatitis C (HCV), and (ii) essential medicines. His research examines individual and third-party payors (government programs and private benefits) in the US’ market-based healthcare system and international contrasts with central government systems. He has served on editorial boards, published and lectured extensively in the United States and abroad. He was visiting the chair of pharmacoeconomics (2006) and a Fulbright Senior Specialist twice (2007 and 2011) at the University of Helsinki. A third Fulbright Specialist project in Spring 2020 was postponed due to the pandemic.

Lyles' operations experience with health service delivery includes administrative work in Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Office of Health Care Programs and as general manager of its Outpatient Department (the 1970s); administrator of the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine (1980s); executive assistant to the dean and vice president for medicine, and assistant dean for planning and analysis, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1990s). He was Chair of the Maryland Drug Use Review Board; Chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges' Group on Institutional Planning; president of Delta Omega, Alpha Chapter, a national public health honor society; and he has served on the Board of Directors of the National Academy of Public Administration.