University of California Berkeley Health Policy&Management Program
The mission of the Graduate Program in Health Policy and Management is to promote and protect the public's health through the preparation of graduates for careers leading toward senior level leadership in health services policy and management, and to conduct research and disseminate knowledge that will advance the orgaization, financing, and delivery of health and medical services.
The Health Policy and Management (HPM) Program seeks to train health management and policy leaders in health care delivery, managed care, insurance, consulting, biotechnology, medical devices and pharmaceuticals. HPM students are trained in biostatistics, epidemiology, policy analysis, health promotion and disease prevention, health economics, the organization of health and medical care systems, strategic management, organizational behavior, health finance, health information technology, medical technology, health information technology, law and ethics.
The HPM Program sees research as an integral component of its mission. Program faculty engage in basic and applied research that broadens the educational experience at expands the state knowledge about how health services systems work. Faculty research on issues in financing, organization, and delivery of health and medical services is fundamental to the quality of the program. Moreover, the dissemniation of new knowledge generated through publishing and continuing education activities contributes to efforts to improve the availability, affordability, and effectiveness of heal services and develop policies that reinforce these objectives.