The Kerry Murphy Healey Center for Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship is where innovation meets entrepreneurship to achieve health, economic, and social value for all, with a focus on health equity and justice.
The Kerry Murphy Healey Center aims to provide cutting-edge experiential learning, research, and advanced education and mentoring to entrepreneurial leaders in the health sector globally, including more than 1,400 Babson alumni in the health sector.
The center is part of the Arthur M. Blank School for Entrepreneurial Leadership at Babson College, which is grounded in values-based leadership and enhances Babson’s entrepreneurial mindset beyond the classroom, equipping learners to grow as entrepreneurial leaders across industries and stages of life.
The Blank School unites specialized centers, institutes, programs, and experts to provide opportunities for participants to grow as leaders.
Become a member before the kickoff event September 16, 2026 and get four months of membership FREE.
Careers in healthcare and life sciences uniquely intersect mission-driven roles, business education, and a growing industry that profoundly impacts everyone. While 65% of positions are in scientific research, 35% focus on essential functions such as management, strategy, and finance, creating diverse opportunities for professionals across various backgrounds.
Explore your next career move and find your place in an industry that:
The healthcare industry needs entrepreneurial leaders who are ready to create economic and social value. Where will you lead?
We believe in the power of business to drive meaningful change in healthcare. Since our founding five years ago, the Kerry Murphy Healey Center has become a hub for entrepreneurial leaders advancing innovative, sustainable, and accessible health solutions around the world.
Explore our first-ever Impact Report to see what we've accomplished—and how you can help shape what comes next.
Reflecting on his new leadership position at the Kerry Murphy Healey Center for Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Dr. Errol Norwitz says that the entrepreneurial mindset is missing from health care. It’s badly needed.
Two leaders of the Kerry Murphy Healey Center for Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship reflect on a discussion about the need for entrepreneurial leadership in the healthcare industry.
With the help of Babson, Dr. Jeanie Chung (left) and her son, Alec Leddon, are taking action to help prevent other families from experiencing the tragedy of the opioid crisis.
The first Health Entrepreneurship Pitch Competition was a testament to the hard work and collaboration between our students, staff, alums, extended community, and faculty. It was also a significant example of student-led collaboration.
Alcade Fabrice Uwonkunda was inspired in part by a health hackathon he attended that was put on jointly by Babson’s Kerry Murphy Healey Center for Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the University of Global Health Equity.
Each new year brings new opportunities and new hopes. For [the Kerry Murphy Healey Center for Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship] at Babson College, 2024 promises to be full of new opportunities for collaboration and innovation.
The grant, the first from NIH to Babson, is expected to provide up to $1.5 million over five years, while the curriculum created is meant to increase the chance of new startups created to address substance abuse disorders.
At the July event on the campus of UGHE in northern Rwanda, 40 students from three Rwandan schools and several countries identified problems in healthcare delivery and ideated and refined potential solutions during a roughly 48-hour period.
An interdisciplinary team of Babson professors is researching the growing disparity in access to good health care in the United States, funded by a new faculty scholarship from The Arthur M. Blank School for Entrepreneurial Leadership.
Babson and Pfizer share a similar set of values and a commitment to making positive, breakthrough changes, Dr. Albert Bourla, the chairman and CEO of Pfizer says. And, his [2021] Commencement address further strengthened the relationship between the two entrepreneurial organizations.
The Healey Center’s involvement with the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) is the latest connection between Babson and Rwanda. In the past, Babson had operated an entrepreneurial center in the country and sent teams of students to Rwanda to teach entrepreneurship.
