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Today, health care around the world faces unprecedented change. These are exciting and challenging times. We know that health care leaders need a variety of skills and knowledge and must be sensitive to many, often conflicting, values if they are to be ready and prepared for all the new developments that lay ahead. To be effective, Health Services needs creative and innovative individuals who are committed to ensuring that all people, irrespective of their gender, race, ethnicity, or economic resources, have access to high quality health services. Our goal in the Department of Health Policy and Management is to attract those who can achieve just that. Our mission is to advance knowledge, translate knowledge into
policy and practice, and to educate individuals for leadership roles in health
management, policy-making and research that seek to improve health-related
quality of life domestically and globally. Our department is dedicated to the task of ensuring that health systems can operate for effective performance and we believe leadership is the key to this. We are dedicated to providing high quality education programs through innovative approaches to learning and teaching, to contributing to the production of new knowledge through excellence in multidisciplinary health services research, and to being of service to communities by developing effective approaches to address community health care needs. News about HPM's current activities and accomplishments can be found on our news page. Our research goal is to promote science in the study of health services, conducting research that has the potential to advance theory as well as to have an impact on the practice and provision of health services. Through our education programs, our faculty prepare master's- and doctoral-level individuals for scientific careers - scholars who will have the necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes to carry out health services research. Our educational goal is to be to provide the finest healthcare management and policy education available anywhere in the world. Our success is built upon the stature of our faculty and our longstanding partnership with the health care community, which ensures that our curricula and courses meet the changing needs of health services. Our graduates have found their experience in our programs to be rewarding, both professionally and personally. Our success is dependent on our ability to work with health services practitioners to find new and innovative strategies to contribute to health services effectiveness. Peggy Leatt, PhD Content for this page provided by the Department of Health Policy and Management. Please contact the webmaster with any questions or comments. |
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