Research Interests
Healthcare Operations Management, Not-for-Profit Operations, Partnership Models of Care
Overview
Prof Lowrey’s 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.
In 2025, Lowrey was an Academic Visitor at Said Business School at the University of Oxford.
Courses
SCHM 2301 Supply Chain and Operations Management
HSCI 2500 Public Health Nutrition in the Community PHTH 5236 Food, Nutrition, and Health.
Working Papers
Lowrey, J., Chandrasekaran, A., Headings, A., Hyder, A. The impact of coupling clinical and non-clinical services in partnership models of care on quality-cost outcomes: Insights from a field experiment. Under review at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
Lowrey, J., Richards, T. and Hamilton, S. Food bank donations and retail pricing.
Selected Publications
Byrne, A. T., Katare, B., & Lowrey, J. (2025). Heterogeneous effects of Medicaid expansion on food security measures. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 107(3), 775-794.
Lowrey, J., Xu, J., McCoy, R., & Eneli, I. (2025). Neighborhood Environment and Longitudinal Follow-Up of Glycosylated Hemoglobin for Youth with Overweight or Obesity. Childhood Obesity, 21(2), 148-156.
Lowrey, J., Chandrasekaran, A., Headings, A., & Hyder, A. (2024). Toward health promotion and prevention: Evidence from a food and health partnership model of care. Journal of Operations Management, 70(6), 1007-1038.
Rutledge, Z., Richards, T. J., & Lowrey, J. D. (2023). Health coverage and farmworker productivity. American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Lowrey, J., Maestas, D., Beaulieu, T., Headings, A., & Hyder, A. (2023). Geospatial Determinants of Food Pantry Access in the Mid-Ohio Farmacy Program. Preventing Chronic Disease, 20, E113.
