卫生政策哲学博士-经济学

由艺术与科学学院授予的哈佛大学卫生政策博士学位，是哈佛大学六个学院之间的合作计划：艺术与科学研究生院，哈佛商学院，哈佛肯尼迪学院，哈佛法学院，哈佛医学院和哈佛大学陈陈公共卫生学院。尽管该计划本质上是跨学科的，但学生专注于六个集中领域之一：决策科学，经济学，伦理学，管理，政策研究方法或政治分析。该大学的学校中大约有110名教职员工参与了该计划，学生可以自由地在整个大学上课。该计划的标志是教师对学生的可及性以及教师对参与该计划的学生的承诺。该计划始于1992年，目前有200名毕业生和63名学生在读。<br>
Students in the economics concentration can expect to gain skills in the theoretical and empirical tools of economics, including applied econometrics and the application of economic theory to policy problems. Examples of the type of research they pursue includes economic evaluation of the consequences of healthcare policies for equity and efficiency, conceptual and empirical work identifying and quantifying the welfare and distributional consequences of market failures in healthcare, assessments of the effects of market structure and the industrial organization of healthcare on costs and quality of care, work studying the optimal design of social programs, work studying the determinants of changes in population-level and group-specific health and wellbeing, work focusing on the effects of policies and markets on innovation and the diffusion of medical technologies, assessments of the role of behavioral frictions in determining patient and provider behavior, etc. After they graduate, these students often work in academia, government, think tanks, and industry. Important differences between this concentration and other tracks are (1) the math background that is required, (2) the focus on economic theory and quasi-experimental empirical methods and (3) the focus on research that seeks to answer very general questions about the organization of the healthcare system rather than narrower, more focused policy evaluations.