卫生政策哲学博士-政策研究方法

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名学生入学。<br>
Training in the MPR concentration (formerly called Evaluative Science & Statistics) will position students to conduct rigorous, policy-relevant research. The concentration includes intensive methodological training that draws from several quantitative fields, including statistics, econometrics, and epidemiology, and also offers opportunities to learn qualitative methods. Students in the MPR concentration will also develop proficiency in experimental and quasi-experimental research designs. The MPR concentration does not require training in a specific discipline of social science, but students are allowed to use two of their distributional requirements to acquire some disciplinary training (e.g., in economics or sociology), and many students pursue additional coursework in a substantive area of interest or advanced levels of statistics. By virtue of this training, MPR students develop a multi-disciplinary toolkit that borrows from the strengths of different quantitative sciences and supports novel applications to health-related questions. Graduates are able to communicate and collaborate effectively with statisticians, economists, epidemiologists, and clinician-investigators, as they lead their independent work. The concentration's broad methodological training flexibly supports scholarship on a wide range of topics, including common areas of interest in health services research related to health care access, quality, costs, and disparities, but also questions focused on clinical decision-making, behavior (e.g., of patients, physicians, or organizations), social determinants of health, and social programs with implications for health.