The Health Policy Ph.D. program trains students in using interdisciplinary methods to address a wide range of health policy and health service challenges in the United States. Students will develop skills in critical review, study design, analysis, proposal development, and professional development. During their coursework, students will have access to top faculty, nationally recognized leaders in Health Policy. They will also have interdisciplinary training in relevant techniques from disciplines including economics, biostatistics, informatics, and epidemiology, as well as hands-on experience in proposal development, research, and teaching. Graduates will be prepared to work in elite academic, private sector, and governmental settings as part of multidisciplinary teams.
Ph.D. students in the Health Policy Program are required to complete 72 credit-hours of methods curriculum, content-area courses, scientific writing, and ethics in health services research. In the first two years students will complete core coursework, including interdisciplinary courses according to their selected sequence in epidemiology, economics, or social sciences. Students will complete qualifying exams the end of their second year and will participate in Health Policy seminar and focus on their dissertation research, along with pursuing other relevant research opportunities in years three and four.