K. Davina Frick is a health economist by training and a professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. She has also been faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has taught microeconomics, health economics, cost-effectiveness, an introduction to the US healthcare system, and leadership ethics. In her research and her teaching, she has worked with colleagues to focus on and taught students about equity related to gender, race, and disability (particularly with respect to vision).
She has also served on committees and boards that have brought her into the diversity and equity space broadly and focused specifically on mental health in academia, for which faculty from marginalized populations are often at risk for greater mental health issues.