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Health Policy & Management
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Mission Statement
The mission of the Department of Health Policy & Management is:
Teaching & Professional Development
The Department of Health Policy & Management provides rigorous
programs of graduate-level education that foster development of
critical skills, health management and policy competencies, values,
and knowledge that graduates will apply in professional roles within
health care and public health as the foundation for their continuing
career development. The Department of HPM prepares individuals to
assume roles of leadership, policy development, and management within
healthcare systems and public health. Degree offerings include the
MHA, MPH (two concentrations currently available: Health Care Program
Management; Health Policy) and JD/MPH.
Community Service
HPM Faculty contribute to community service by advancing the state of knowledge and professional practice in institutional and system healthcare management, health services and health economics research and scholarship in the development, advocacy, and analysis of health policy and the policy-making process. Students are encouraged to participate in service-learning and civic engagement opportunities relevant to their discipline and professional development.
Research
The Department’s faculty is committed to developing a broad base of research and scholarship, as the intellectual foundation for our current /future professional education programs. The multidisciplinary nature of both health policy and health management presents both challenges and opportunities. The core disciplines represented within the Department include health economics, human resource management, health policy, long-term care, law, ethics, and organization studies applied to health care. HPM Faculty are engaged in interdisciplinary research, scholarship, and publication addressing a range of problems relevant to health policy, health services delivery, outcome measurement, patient safety, leadership and organization management relevant to health care organizations and systems. |
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In The Spotlight Dr. Barron has been selected as
the 2009 recipient of the
Allegheny County
Medical Society Benjamin Rush
Individual Public Health Award.
Dr. Longest gave the following
lecture: “The Endgame for Health
Reform Policy.” Project Management
Institute, Pittsburgh Chapter,
Pittsburgh, November 12, 2009.
October 16, 2009 Annual
Mentors/Students Conference
Attendees…’First-year’ Students,
Mentors, HPM Faculty
October 30, 2009 Johns Hopkins
will conduct student interviews for
Administrative Fellowship Positions
November 16 and 17, 2009 2009 HPM
Department’s National Advisory
Committee Meeting
December 1, 2009 Special
Presentation to all HPM Students Mr.
Charles R. Evans, Chair, American
College of Healthcare Executives
(ACHE) And President and CEO,
International Health Services Group
(IHSC) IHSC is a social enterprise
Mr. Evans founded in 2007, to
support health services development
in the world’s underserved areas.
IHSC’s mission is to work with
established organizations, to
supplement their capabilities in
healthcare management and
development. As part of his role as
Chairman, Mr. Evans hopes to expand
awareness within ACHE of
international healthcare issues.
Dr. Yuting Zhang received a $1
million challenge grant from NIMH to
evaluate the most cost-effective
methods to cover psychotropic
medications for Medicare
beneficiaries.
Mothers, newborns at risk in Pennsylvania's budget cuts by
Judith Lave, PhD. Thursday July 09, 2009, 1:28 AM,
PennLive.com
Dr. Yuting Zhang was selected to receive the research
funding from the
Central Research Development Fund
at the University
of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Yuting Zhang had four papers accepted for
presentation at the
AcademyHealth annual meeting in Chicago in June
2009
Dr. Yuting Zhang was selected as one of two recipients in 2009 to
receive the
Health
Disparity Pilot Grant Award sponsored by the RAND-University of
Pittsburgh Health Institute (RUPHI), the Center for Minority Health,
and the Section on Healthcare Disparities and International
Medicine.
Dr. Judith Lave has been designated a
National Associate of the National Academies in recognition of the
work that she has done on committees that carry out the work for the
National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine.
The Department of Health Policy & Management is now offering
a
Ph.D. program in Health Services Research and Policy. We
are currently accepting and reviewing applications for the first
class of students for Fall 2009.
Faculty Position:
Now accepting applications and nominations for the position of
Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and
Management (HPM).
Schedule for Health
Policy Institute's
Governance Briefings |
Presentations and
Publications by HPM Faculty
Rachel Garfield, PhD. article:
“Mental Health Policy Development in the States: The Piecemeal Nature of
Transformational Change.” Psychiatric Services. October 2009, 60: 1329-35.
Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences (in press).
“How the Medicare Part D Drug Benefit Changed the Distribution of
Out-of-Pocket Pharmacy Spending among Older Beneficiaries". Yuting Zhang is
the first author and coauthors include Judy Lave, Joe Newhouse and Julie
Donohue.
NEJM July 2 2009, “The Effect of Medicare Part D on
Drug and Medical Spending,
Yuting Zhang, Julie Donohue, Judith Lave, Gerald O’Donnell, Joseph Newhouse
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