Erika K. Johnson, MHSA

Erika K. Johnson leads the Vizient Research Institute’s annual research studies examining macroeconomic pressures on the U.S. healthcare system. Through quantitative analysis and executive facilitation, she helps academic medical centers and community health systems translate data and insights into strategy, focusing on long-term financial sustainability and care model redesign.

Johnson has held leadership roles at Vizient for more than 20 years and previously served at the University of Michigan Health System, where she completed an administrative fellowship and led executive-level initiatives across the hospital, medical school and research enterprises working directly with the hospital’s CEO and the medical school’s executive associate dean. Johnson also has held administrative positions in strategic planning and case management with other teaching hospitals in Southeast Michigan.

She earned a Bachelor of Science in biology and a Master of Health Services Administration from the University of Michigan.