Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health
31-269 Center for Health Sciences
Box 951772
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772
Health Policy and Management
310-825-2594
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The field of health policy and management examines the organization and financing of various health sector and wider social system activities to prevent and treat disease. This includes programs in both the public and private sectors at all levels—local, state, and federal.
Faculty members come from such diverse fields as economics, management, law, statistics, operations research, planning, medicine, history, sociology, and political science. These diverse disciplines are harmonized by their devotion to solving problems—through quantitative, qualitative, and mixed method analyses—in the financing and delivery of health policy and management, with a focus on populations rather than individual patients.
The Department of Health Policy and Management offers both practice-oriented and research-oriented graduate programs. The primary professional degree, the Master of Public Health (MPH), includes training in various aspects of health administration such as policy formulation, health planning, organization, and management. For information on the MPH and concurrent degree programs, see Health Policy and Management Department on the Division of Graduate Education website.
The Executive Programs Office in Health Policy and Management offers two executive degree programs designed for working professionals: Executive Master of Public Health (EMPH) and the online Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA). For more information on these programs, see Executive Programs on the department website.
For those interested in careers in research and teaching, the department offers Master of Science (MS) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees in Health Policy and Management. These programs maintain close ties with related activities in the schools of dentistry and medicine, including the UCLA National Clinician Scholars Program.
