Health Management and Policy MPH
Major: Health Management and Policy
Degree Awarded: Master of Public Health (MPH)
Calendar Type: Quarter
Minimum Required Credits: 56.0
Co-op Option: None
Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code: 51.0701
Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) code: 11-9111
About the Program
Students in the Master of Public Health in Health Management and Policy program learn the skills necessary to take on management and policy-making roles to improve healthcare delivery and population health at the local, state, and national levels. The program trains the next generation of public health practitioners and leaders to become agents for positive change in a dynamic and complex world who will lead in the following domains:
- Urban Health: Manage a diverse set of healthcare and public health programs aimed at advancing the health status of people living in America’s cities.
- Human Rights: Assure that organizational priorities and strategies focus on improving and maintaining health as a basic human right.
- Policy and Management Integration: Direct organizations and programs with a clear vision of how the interests of institutions and society must be considered as mutually dependent.
The curriculum provides engaging and challenging learning experiences that prepare students to lead purposeful lives in the service of healthcare and public health. Students learn to plan, implement, operate, and evaluate programs and organizations that are responsive to rapidly changing needs and entrenched in longstanding societal problems. Recognizing that health should be a component of all public policy, faculty help students to develop professional skills in management, organization, finance, advocacy, political action, research, public policy analysis, and evaluation.
In teaching, research, and service, students, faculty, and staff engage with many community partners in common cause to contribute responsible, sustainable solutions that improve the quality of life in the region and beyond.
Additional Information
For more information about this program, please contact:
DSPH Academic Advising Team
Office of Education
dsphadvising@drexel.edu
Additional information can be found on the Dornsife School of Public Health website, including admissions criteria and how to apply.
Degree Requirements
| Core Courses | ||
| BST 571 | Introduction to Biostatistics | 3.0 |
| EPI 570 | Introduction to Epidemiology | 3.0 |
| HMP 505 | Qualitative Data and Mixed Methods Analysis | 3.0 |
| PBHL 510 | Public Health Foundations and Systems I | 4.0 |
| PBHL 511 | Public Health Foundations and Systems II | 4.0 |
| Major Courses | ||
| HMP 500 | Health Management and Policy I | 3.0 |
| HMP 501 | Health Management and Policy II | 3.0 |
| HMP 550 | Health Disparities: Systemic, Structural, Environmental & Economic | 3.0 |
| Policy Selective (Select One) | 3.0 | |
| Evolution of United States Health Policy | ||
| Legal Aspects of Public Health | ||
| Policy Analysis for Population Health | ||
| Public Policy and Advocacy | ||
| Management Selective (Select One) | 3.0 | |
| The Business of Healthcare: Advanced Healthcare Financial Management | ||
| Health Care Organizations and Management | ||
| Management of Healthcare Outcomes | ||
| Social Justice/Equity Selective (Select One) | 3.0 | |
| Maternal & Child Health Policy | ||
| Historical and Contemporary Developments in Social Justice | ||
| Violence, Trauma and Adversity in Public Health | ||
| Public Health and the Complexity of Mental Health Policy: Exploring Past, Present, and Future | ||
| Public Health Advocacy and Activism | ||
| Health Systems Policy Analysis | ||
| Abolition Frameworks for Public Health: Transformative Policies for a New Society | ||
| Disability and Measurement | ||
| Medicaid and Disability Policy | ||
| Applied Practical Experience | ||
| PBHL 500 | Practical Experience for the Master of Public Health | 0.0 |
| Integrative Learning Experience | ||
| HMP 750 | Integrative Learning Experience | 3.0 |
| HMP 751 | Integrative Learning Experience II | 3.0 |
| Electives * | 15.0 | |
| Total Credits | 56.0 | |
- *
Students choose from any BST, CHP, EOH, EPI, HMP, or PBHL course from the 500-999 level. Students can take additional 500-level or above electives across the university as long as they meet prerequisite and restriction requirements. Students can contact their faculty mentor to discuss elective options.
Students may be able to use elective credits to further focus their academic work by completing a graduate minor or by coupling a DSPH graduate certificate. Students must have enough applicable elective credits to complete the certificate program without going beyond the required credits for the program. Students can contact their academic advisor for more information.
Sample Plan of Study
12-Month (4 Quarter) Full-Time
| Summer | Credits | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BST 571 | 3.0 | ||||||
| EPI 570 | 3.0 | ||||||
| PBHL 510 | 4.0 | ||||||
| PBHL 511 | 4.0 | ||||||
| 14 | |||||||
| First Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | ||
| HMP 500 | 3.0 | HMP 501 | 3.0 | HMP 751 | 3.0 | ||
| HMP 505 | 3.0 | HMP 750 | 3.0 | Electives/Selectives* | 9.0 | ||
| HMP 550 | 3.0 | Electives/Selectives* | 9.0 | ||||
| PBHL 500 | 0.0 | ||||||
| Electives/Selectives* | 6.0 | ||||||
| 15 | 15 | 12 | |||||
| Total Credits 56 | |||||||
- *
Students pick one Policy Selective, one Management Selective, and one Social Justice/Equity Selective.
18-Month (5 Quarter) Full-Time
| First Year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| BST 571 | 3.0 | EPI 570 | 3.0 | HMP 505 | 3.0 | PBHL 500 | 0.0 |
| HMP 500 | 3.0 | HMP 501 | 3.0 | Electives/Selectives* | 9.0 | ||
| PBHL 510 | 4.0 | PBHL 511 | 4.0 | ||||
| Electives/Selectives* | 3.0 | ||||||
| 10 | 13 | 12 | 0 | ||||
| Second Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | ||||
| HMP 550 | 3.0 | HMP 751 | 3.0 | ||||
| HMP 750 | 3.0 | Electives/Selectives* | 6.0 | ||||
| Electives/Selectives* | 6.0 | ||||||
| 12 | 9 | ||||||
| Total Credits 56 | |||||||
- *
Students pick one Policy Selective, one Management Selective, and one Social Justice/Equity Selective.
21-Month (6 Quarter) Full-Time
| First Year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| BST 571 | 3.0 | EPI 570 | 3.0 | HMP 505 | 3.0 | PBHL 500 | 0.0 |
| HMP 500 | 3.0 | HMP 501 | 3.0 | Electives/Selectives* | 6.0 | ||
| PBHL 510 | 4.0 | PBHL 511 | 4.0 | ||||
| 10 | 10 | 9 | 0 | ||||
| Second Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | ||
| HMP 550 | 3.0 | HMP 750 | 3.0 | HMP 751 | 3.0 | ||
| Electives/Selectives* | 6.0 | Electives/Selectives* | 6.0 | Electives/Selectives* | 6.0 | ||
| 9 | 9 | 9 | |||||
| Total Credits 56 | |||||||
- *
Students pick one Policy Selective, one Management Selective, and one Social Justice/Equity Selective.
Program Level Outcomes
Foundational Competencies
- Apply epidemiological methods to settings and situations in public health practice
- Select quantitative and qualitative data collection methods appropriate for a given public health context
- Analyze quantitative and qualitative data using biostatistics, informatics, computer-based programming, and software, as appropriate
- Interpret results of data analysis for public health research, policy, or practice
- Compare the organization, structure, and function of health care, public health, and regulatory systems across national and international settings
- Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities, and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community, and systemic levels
- Assess population needs, assets, and capacities that affect communities’ health
- Apply awareness of cultural values and practices to the design, implementation, or critique of public health policies or programs
- Design a population-based policy, program, project, or intervention
- Explain basic principles and tools of budget and resource management
- Select methods to evaluate public health programs
- Discuss the policy-making process, including the roles of ethics and evidence
- Propose strategies to identify relevant communities and individuals and build coalitions and partnerships for influencing public health outcomes
- Advocate for political, social, or economic policies and programs that will improve health in diverse populations
- Evaluate policies for their impact on public health and health equity
- Apply leadership and/or management principles to address a relevant issue
- Apply negotiation and mediation skills to address organizational or community challenges
- Select communication strategies for different audiences and sectors
- Communicate audience-appropriate public health content, both in writing and through oral presentation to a non-academic, non-peer audience with attention to factors such as literacy and health literacy
- Describe the importance of cultural humility in communicating public health content
- Integrate perspectives from other sectors and/or professions to promote and advance population health
- Apply a systems thinking tool to visually represent a public health issue in a format other than standard narrative
Major Competencies
- Analyze the government powers and restraints from legal and/or historical perspectives that underlie the development, analysis, and implementation of a public health program or policy
- Apply health care financial and/or organizational management tools and measures to assure effective resource use in achieving population health improvement objectives
- Assess how public policy and programs can counteract the roles of history, power, privilege, and structural racism in producing health inequities
- Apply population health principles in assessing value-based healthcare delivery and financing strategies
- Contribute to the development of an evidence-informed program or policy proposal that addresses an important urban public health problem