Health Systems Management, MPH
The Health Systems Management program prepares future managers and leaders who will improve the healthcare delivery services in diverse organizational settings worldwide. Students learn the fundamental areas of management of health services through coursework and practicum experience, preparing them for entry-level managerial roles in healthcare settings. Taking a systems approach, courses emphasize active management in planning, financing, implementing, evaluating, and maintaining complex systems.
Program Competencies
At the completion of the MPH degree, the student will be able to:
- Apply population-based and public health findings and principles in assessing individuals and groups at risk of disease and injury and making recommendations for improved health in clinical practice settings.
- Identify the theoretical and applied bases of economics in health care, including delivery of care to populations, access to care for populations, and organization of medical service delivery organizations.
- Explain and analyze the issues of quality, access, and efficiency of healthcare service delivery.
- Identify and describe the main components of the organization, financing, and delivery of health services and public health systems in the U.S. and other contexts.
- Describe frameworks for understanding and assessing health systems performance.
- Apply “systems thinking” approaches to viewing complex situations, defining problems, and formulating solutions.
- Apply basic managerial concepts and tools to program planning, budgeting, monitoring, and evaluation of organizational and community-based initiatives.
- Incorporate knowledge of the public health core areas of epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental health, health systems management, and the biological, behavioral, social, and cultural aspects of health and disease in addressing and solving problems.