Program Overview

DPH in Health Policy and Management

Overview

The DPH in Health Policy and Management is a doctoral program designed to equip graduates with the theories and methods necessary to understand and improve health services and health policies. Students in this program will select a focus on either Health Policy or Health Management.

Curriculum

The curriculum for the DPH in Health Policy and Management includes:

• Core Courses (18 credits)
  • PUBH 810: Cities, Society, and Health
  • PUBH 812: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Urban Health Research
  • PUBH 811: Quantitative Research Methods with Applications to Urban Health
  • PUBH 813: Qualitative Research Methods with Application to Urban Health
  • PUBH 814: Leadership & Organizational Change Seminar
  • EPID 820: Epidemiologic Methods I
• Concentration Courses (21 credits)
  • HPAM 820: Seminar in Health Policy and Management
  • HPAM 821: Quantitative Methods in Health Services Research
  • HPAM 822: Public Health Economics
  • HPAM 823: Health Policy Analysis Methods
  • Three (3) advanced research methods or track-specific practice courses, one of which must be from a Graduate Center program outside of Public Health
• Practice Experience (3 credits)
  • PUBH 896: Practicum Project
• Examinations
  • Students in all cohorts and all tracks take two examinations to test their mastery of the curriculum.
• Seminars (6 credits)
  • PUBH 815: Advanced Research Seminar I
  • PUBH 816: Advanced Research Seminar II
  • PUBH 898: Dissertation Seminar
• Culminating Experience (0 credits)
  • PUBH 900: Dissertation Supervision
• Total Required Credits: 48

Competencies

Graduates of the DPH in Health Policy and Management program will be able to:

• Assess and analyze the impact of public policy interventions within the various domains of public health.
• Understand and analyze the policy environment for healthcare organizations.
• Discuss how organizational structure, motivation and incentives, individual and group behavior, group decision making, quality measurement and improvement, and organizational relations with their environments affect organizational behavior and service delivery in healthcare and public health organizations.
• Develop interventions to change organizational behavior and service delivery to improve healthcare and public health service delivery and health outcomes.
• Understand organizational behavior and organization theory as frameworks for examining relationships between diversity and disparities in healthcare quality.
• Understand and appropriately apply analytical strategies used in health policy research.
• Develop familiarity with and critically analyze federal, state, and municipal laws/regulations and their historical context as relevant to public health management and policy decisions.
• Formulate alternative options for resolving problems in health policy or management, evaluate their economic, practical, ethical, legal, administrative, and technical feasibility, and recommend preferred options based on and supported by analysis.

Recommended Course Sequence

The recommended course sequence for the DPH in Health Policy and Management program is as follows:

• Year 1 Fall: PUBH 810, PUBH 811, EPID 820
• Year 1 Spring: PUBH 812, HPAM 820, PUBH 813
• Year 1 Summer: The First Exam
• Year 2 Fall: HPAM 821, Track Selective I, PUBH 815
• Year 2 Spring: HPAM 822, Track Selective II
• Year 3 Fall: PUBH 896, HPAM 823, PUBH 814
• Year 3 Spring: The Second Exam, PUBH 816, Track Selective III
• Year 4 Fall: PUBH 898, PUBH 900
• Year 4 Spring: PUBH 898, PUBH 900
• Year 5 Fall: PUBH 898, PUBH 900
• Year 5 Spring: PUBH 898, PUBH 900

Please note that the program is no longer accepting new students.