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.
Education
- PhD Operations Management, The Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business
- MAE Applied Economics, The Ohio State University
- MBA, The Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business
- MS Food Science, The Ohio State University
- BS Biology, The University of Akron
Awards and Recognition
- Robert Bartels Research Fellow, The Ohio State University
- Zero Hunger Zero Waste, Kroger Company ($10,000)
Selected Publications
- Lowrey, J. Chandrasekaran, A. Headings, A. and Hyder, A., 2024. Toward health promotion and prevention: Evidence from a food and health partnership model of care. Journal of Operations Management.
- Lowrey, J.D., Richards, T.J. and Hamilton, S.F., 2023. Food donations, retail operations, and retail pricing. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 25(2).
