Degree Requirements
The PhD in Health Policy and Administration (HPA) program requires a minimum of 96 semester hours. This program includes the following course requirements:
School-Wide Core Requirements (46 semester hours)
- BSTT 400 – Biostatistics I (4 semester hours)*
- BSTT 401 – Biostatistics II (4 semester hours)*
- EPID 403 – Introduction to Epidemiology: Principles and Methods (3 semester hours)*
- IPHS 520 – Public Health Frameworks for Researchers (required for all PhD students without an MPH degree) (3 semester hours)
- IPHS 599 – PhD Dissertation Research (minimum 32 semester hours)
* Only required if not previously taken at the master’s level.
Required Non-Credit Training
Optional Concentrations
Two optional concentrations are offered:
- Health services and outcomes: designed to provide the research skills necessary to study the organization, access, financing and delivery of health services
- Health economics: provides the research skills necessary to evaluate the policies that influence population health and the political environment
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Required Courses
- BSTT 505 – Logistic Regression and Survival Analysis (2 semester hours)
- BSTT 507 – Sampling and Estimation Methods Applied to Public Health (3 semester hours)
- BSTT 537 – Longitudinal Data Analysis (4 semester hours)
- CHS 447 – Survey Planning and Design (3 semester hours)
- CHS 534 – Qualitative Data Analysis (3 semester hours)
- CHS 551 – Foundations of Public Health Inquiry (3 semester hours)
- HPA 557 – Measurement in Health Services Research (3 semester hours)
- HPA 590 – Research and Grant Writing (3 semester hours)
Choose one of the following courses:
- UPP 584 – Methods in Policy Analysis (4 semester hours)
- UPP 588 – Research Design and Evaluation (4 semester hours)
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Required Courses
- ECON 436 – Mathematical Economics (4 semester hours)
- ECON 501 – Microeconomics I (4 semester hours)
- BSTT 537 – Microeconomics II (4 semester hours)
- CHSC 447 – Econometrics I (4 semester hours)
- CHSC 534 – Econometrics II (4 semester hours)
- CHSC 551 – Microeconometrics (4 semester hours)
- HPA 557 – Advanced Health Economics I (4 semester hours)
- HPA 590 – Research and Grant Writing (3 semester hours)