This program focuses on examining the effects of health policies, health systems, healthcare programs, and related practices, norms, organization, and decision-making on health outcomes that are often inequitable. The MA and PhD in Health will stress the achievement of equity in health through policies, systems, practices and data analytics for improving social causes of inequity in health and the organization and delivery of health care.
Applicants are to choose one program field at the time of application from the following options:
- Health Policy and Equity
- Health System Management and Health Data Analytics
The specialized field in Health Policy and Equity (HP&E) is designed to ask questions and challenge assumptions that everyone accessing health care is treated equally, or has an equitable chance at good health. The field considers the determinants of inequity such as gender, poverty, age, race/ethnicity, migration status, and social exclusion.
The specialized field in Health System Management & Health Data Analytics (HSM & HDA) uniquely brings these two areas together to examine the nature of data and evidence, and the complexity of decision making in the health system context. This specialized field seeks to contribute knowledge regarding both the technological and the socio-political aspects of how health system decisions are made and how system change occurs (or why it sometimes fails to occur).
