Dr. O’Donnell is Vice President, Worldwide Health Economics and Outcomes Research at Bristol-Myers Squibb. He leads a diverse Global team dedicated to defining, developing and delivering evidence of value to ensure patients, payers and providers have the best possible information about, and optimal access to medicines. John is member of the Worldwide Access Council at BMS with responsibility for ensuring appropriate reimbursement and market access considerations are incorporated throughout the development process within R&D. He is a member of Academy Health's Methods Council, which seeks to develop strategies for professional development in Comparative Effectiveness and Health Services Research methods as well as identifying future needs in the areas of training, in best practices and in the development of new methods. He also is the inaugural Chair of AcademyHealth’s Corporate Council.

John is an Institutional Council member of the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research and was lead author and editor of the Value in Health Special Issues on Health Technology Assessment in Evidence-Based Health Care Reimbursement Decisions Around the World and Personalized Medicine and the Role of Health Economics and Outcomes Research.

John received a PhD in Health Policy and Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has twenty-five years of experience in health services and outcomes research in industry, in academia and in US State and Federal governments, with 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. While in government and academia, John advanced health policy research in rehabilitation services, veterans’ health and the aged through his work with the US Department of Veterans Affairs and Duke University’s Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development. He also analyzed optimal social service and primary care delivery models for foster care and geriatric team care.

John is Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published in the areas of health economic evaluation, health policy, health services research, geriatrics and rehabilitation and is a reviewer for leading journals including Medical Care, Value in Health, American Journal of Psychology, and the Archives of Internal Medicine.