• Health services research aims to identify the most effective ways to organize, manage, finance and deliver high-quality care to benefit population health.
  • The Ph.D. program explicitly seeks to train scientists to contribute as part of multidisciplinary teams in academic, government, and private-sector research and health care organizations. The program emphasizes communication of scientific knowledge and development of leadership skills to improve the delivery of services and influence health policy at the organizational, state, national, and international levels. The competency-based curriculum provides students with a strong analytic foundation and general health services research orientation. Students may also select an emphasis area in pharmaceutical health services research, health economics, or