Program Overview

Accelerated MBA/MPH in Health Care Management

The Accelerated MBA/MPH in Health Care Management is an innovative program that enables students to earn an MBA and an MPH in just 22 months through intensive study at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and the Yale School of Management (SOM). This program is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to become leaders in health care organizations across the globe.

Program Structure

• The program begins with an intensive summer session at YSPH, where students complete MPH core courses in Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Social and Behavioral Sciences.
• The first fall and spring semesters are spent at SOM, and students take courses at both schools during the remaining final year.
• Students complete a minimum of 14 course units at YSPH and 52 course units at SOM.

Requirements

• Matriculation: Students begin the program with an intensive summer session at YSPH.
• MPH Required Core Courses (5 course units):
  • Public Health Primer; 0 units; summer
  • BIS 515 Accelerated Biostatistics - 2 units; summer
  • CDE 515 Accelerated Epidemiology - 1 unit; summer
  • PUBH 100 or PUBH 101 Professional Skills Series - n/a; fall or spring
  • PUBH 510 Health Policy and Health Care Systems - 1 unit; fall
• HCM Department Required Courses (6 course units):
  • HPM 570 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Decision Making - 1 unit; fall
  • HPM 583 Methods in Health Services Research - 1 unit; spring
  • MGT 699 Colloquium in Health Care Leadership (two semesters)* - 0.5 fall/spring
  • HPM 688 Managing Health Care in Complex Systems (capstone) - 1 unit; spring
  • MGT 698 Health Care Policy, Finance, and Economics - 1 unit; spring
• Global Health Leadership Elective: Choose from the Global Health Concentration list.
• Elective Courses: 2-3 Course Units, dependent on Practice Requirement credits.
• Public Health Practice Requirement:
  • PUBH 500 Public Health Practicum - 1 unit; spring
  • PUBH 501 U.S. Health Justice Concentration Practicum - 1 unit; spring
  • PUBH 521 Summer Internship - APE (Must be approved by YSPH Office of Public Health Practice) - n/a; summer
  • PUBH 555 Practicum in Climate Change, Sustainability and PH - 1 unit; fall or spring
  • EMD/SBS 584 Advanced Global Health Justice Practicum: Fieldwork - 1 unit; fall or spring
  • EMD/SBS 588 Health Justice Practicum - 1 unit; fall or spring
  • HPM 555 Health Care Management Practicum - 1 unit; spring
  • HPM 556 Advanced Health Policy Practicum - 1 unit; fall

Competencies of the MPH Core Curriculum

The core curriculum of the MPH program focuses on competencies in evidence-based approaches to public health, public health and health care systems, planning and management to promote health, policy in public health, leadership, communication, interprofessional practice, and systems thinking.

• Building foundational public health skills and knowledge: The curriculum is closely mapped to the core and departmental competencies so that students will have a foundation in the skills needed for a successful career in public health.
• Competencies:
  1. Apply epidemiological methods to the breadth of settings and situations in public health practice.
  2. Select quantitative and qualitative data collection methods appropriate for a given public health context.
  3. Analyze quantitative and qualitative data using biostatistics, informatics, computer-based programming and software, as appropriate.
  4. Interpret results of data analysis for public health research, policy, or practice.
  5. Compare the organization, structure, and function of health care, public health, and regulatory systems across national and international settings.
  6. Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities, and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community, and societal levels.
  7. Assess population needs, assets, and capacities that affect communities’ health.
  8. Apply awareness of cultural values and practices to the design or implementation of public health policies or programs.
  9. Design a population-based policy, program, project, or intervention.
  10. Explain the basic principles and tools of budget and resource management.
  11. Select methods to evaluate public health programs.
  12. Discuss multiple dimensions of the policy-making process, including the roles of ethics and evidence.
  13. Propose strategies to identify stakeholders and build coalitions and partnerships for influencing public health outcomes.
  14. Advocate for political, social, or economic policies and programs that will improve health in diverse populations.
  15. Evaluate policies for their impact on public health and health equity.
  16. Apply principles of leadership, governance, and management, which include creating a vision, empowering others, fostering collaboration, and guiding decision-making.
  17. Apply negotiation and mediation skills to address organizational or community challenges.
  18. Select communication strategies for different audiences and sectors.
  19. Communicate audience-appropriate public health content, both in writing and through oral presentation.
  20. Describe the importance of cultural competence in communicating public health content.
  21. Perform effectively on interprofessional teams.
  22. Apply systems-thinking tools to a public health issue.

Competencies - Health Care Management

The following are the core competencies specific to the MPH in Health Care Management at the Yale School of Public Health, taught in conjunction with the Yale School of Management:

• Evaluate health care financing, regulatory and delivery systems.
• Conduct financial analyses, including reading and analyzing financial statements.
• Utilize statistical analysis skills to conduct health systems and policy research.
• Apply management problem-solving skills to improve functioning of organizations and agencies in health systems.
• Apply operations management concepts to address organizational performance issues in health service organizations.

MPH Degree Program Resources

• Career Management Center
• What you can do with a Yale MPH
• MPH career outcomes
• Practicum course offerings
• How to apply & FAQs
• Tuition & Financial Aid