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Graduate Program in Health Policy and Management
Two-Year Master's Program


The two-year MPH program in HPM requires students to complete a total of 48 units in four semesters and one summer. Schoolwide breadth courses take up 14 units (including three units for the summer internship). HPM required courses take up 25 units. The remaining units are taken as elective courses anywhere in the university.

Schoolwide Requirements (14 units)
PH 142 Introduction to Probability & Statistics in Biology & Public Health
PH 200C Public Health Core Breadth Seminar
PH 200D Applied Public Health: Putting Theory Into Practice
PH 250A Epidemiologic Methods I
PH 297* Public Health Field Placement
HPM Program Required Courses (25 units)
Policy Implementation
PH 220 Health Policy Decision-Making
Management and Organization
PH 223C Strategic Management and the Organization of Health Services
Microeconomics of Health Care
One of the following two courses:
PH 226A Health Economics
PH 226B** Microeconomics of Health Care Policy
Statistical Methods
PH 231A Analytic Methods for Health Policy & Management
Professional Development
PH 291A PH Practice Preparation: What Can You Do with a MPH? (Fall)
PH 291A PH Practice Preparation: Professional Development Workshop Series (Spring)
PH 298.32 Foundations of Health Policy and Management
Health Law
One of the following two courses:
PH 225 Legal Basis for Health
PH 229 Public Health and the Law
Health Finance
One of the following courses:
PH 227A Health Care Finance
PH 227B*** Advanced Financial Management
Capstone
PH 223E Capstone Seminar in Health Policy and Management

Requirements Subject to Change for 2007-2008 Academic Year
*HPM students may add an optional field placement in their second Fall Semester
**PH 226B is an advanced course requiring a master's-level microeconomics course or consent of instructor.
***PH 227B is an advanced course requiring a master's-level finance prerequisite or consent of instructor.

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